We propose a new paradigm for building scalable distributed systems. Our approach does not require dealing with message-passing protocols—a major complication in existing distri...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. S...
In hedonic games, players have the opportunity to form coalitions, and have preferences over the coalitions they might join. Such games can be used to model a variety of settings ...
— Many complex, real world phenomena are difficult to study directly using controlled experiments. Instead, the use of computer simulations has become commonplace as a cost effe...
Dirk Gorissen, Luciano De Tommasi, Jeroen Croon, T...
Among the open problems in P2P systems, support for non-trivial search predicates, standardized query languages, distributed query processing, query load balancing, and quality of...
Anwitaman Datta, Manfred Hauswirth, Renault John, ...
In this paper, we describe an approach for automatically generating configurations for complex applications. Automated generation of system co nfigurations is required to allow lar...
Tim Hinrichs, Nathaniel Love, Charles J. Petrie, L...