– Communication overhead is one of the dominant factors that affect performance in high-performance computing systems. To reduce the negative impact of communication, programmers...
Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Abstract. We introduce a collection of high performance kernels for basic linear algebra. The kernels encapsulate small xed size computations in order to provide building blocks fo...
Mobile agents are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their realization have been proposed. With the increasing market of electronic commerce it become...
Hartmut Vogler, Thomas Kunkelmann, Marie-Luise Mos...
We define two new classes of shared-memory objects: ratifiers, which detect agreement, and conciliators, which ensure agreement with some probability. We show that consensus can...