Brokers are used in many multi-agent systems for locating agents, for routing and sharing information, for managing the system, and for legal purposes, as independent third partie...
Sanjeev Kumar, Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque
distributed shared-memory (SDSM) provides the abstraction necessary to run shared-memory applications on cost-effective parallel platforms such as clusters of workstations. Howeve...
Group communications are commonly used in parallel and distributed environment. However, existing migration mechanisms do not support group communications. This weakness prevents ...
An important problem in the ®eld of distributed systems is that of detecting the termination of a distributed computation. Distributed termination detection (DTD) is a dicult p...
Fault tolerant distributed protocols typically utilize a homogeneous fault model, either fail-crash or fail-Byzantine, where all processors are assumed to fail in the same manner....