A major challenge in Metacomputing Systems (Computational Grids) is to effectively use their shared resources, such as compute cycles, memory, communication network, and data repo...
Ammar H. Alhusaini, Viktor K. Prasanna, Cauligi S....
In this paper we combine existing work in the area of social laws with a framework for reasoning about knowledge in multi-agent systems. The unifying framework in which this is do...
Wiebe van der Hoek, Mark Roberts, Michael Wooldrid...
This paper asks a new question: how can we control the collective behavior of self-organized multi-agent systems? We try to answer the question by proposing a new notion called `So...
Occam is a parallel processing language designed by a team at INMOS in conjunction with the design of the transputer processor, and based on Sir T. Hoare's ideas of Communica...
Abstract. Existing approaches to the management of streaming positional updates generally assume that all active user requests have equal importance, ignoring the possibility of an...