IT today is driven by the trend of increasing scale and complexity. Utility and Grid computing models, PlanetLab, and traditional data centers, are reaching the scale of thousands...
— Denial-of-service attacks are becoming more frequent and sophisticated. Researchers have proposed a variety of defenses, including better system configurations, infrastructure...
In this paper, we take the idea of application-level processing on disks to one level further, and focus on an architecture, called Cluster of Active Disks (CAD), where the storag...
Abstract Complex systems call for a hierarchical description. Analogously, the engineering of non-trivial MASs (multiagent systems) requires principles and mechanisms for a multi-l...
Ambra Molesini, Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, ...
We propose an active vision system for object acquisition. The core of our approach is a reinforcement learning module which learns a strategy to scan an object. The agent moves a...
Gabriele Peters, Claus-Peter Alberts, Markus Bries...