With the explosive growth of demand for services on the Internet, the networking infrastructure (routers, protocols, servers) is under considerable stress. Mechanisms are needed f...
Distributed Virtual Computer (DVC) is a computing environment which simplifies the development and execution of distributed applications on computational grids. DVC provides a sim...
A classic example of multiagent coordination in a shared environment involves the use of pheromone deposits as a communication mechanism. Due to physical limitations in deploying ...
Brian Hrolenok, Sean Luke, Keith Sullivan, Christo...
Data-shipping systems that allow inter-transaction caching raise the need of a transactional cache consistency maintenance (CCM) protocol because each client is able to cache a po...
Gossip protocols are considered very effective to disseminate information in a large scale dynamic distributed system. Their inherent simplicity makes them easy to implement and de...