Rational and selfish nodes in P2P systems usually lack effective incentives to cooperate, contributing to the increase of free-riders, and degrading the system performance. Variou...
A multi-agent system is a network of software agents that cooperate to solve problems. In open multi-agent systems, the agents that need resources provided by other agents are not ...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...
Timed I/O Automata (TIOA) is a mathematical framework for modeling and verification of distributed systems that involve discrete and continuous dynamics. TIOA can be used for exa...
Myla Archer, Hongping Lim, Nancy A. Lynch, Sayan M...