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HPCN
1999
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Towards a Scalable Metacomputing Storage Service
We describe a prototypical storage service through which we are addressing some of the open storage issues in wide-area distributed high-performance computing. We discuss some of t...
Craig J. Patten, Kenneth A. Hawick, J. F. Hercus
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
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15 years 7 months ago
Symbolic model checking of institutions
Norms defined by institutions and enforced by organizations have been put forward as a mechanism to increase the efficiency and reliability of electronic transactions carried out ...
Francesco Viganò, Marco Colombetti
DC
1999
15 years 3 months ago
A Simple and Fast Asynchronous Consensus Protocol Based on a Weak Failure Detector
or fault-tolerant asynchronous systems. It abstracts a family of problems known as Agreement (or Coordination) problems. Any solution to consensus can serve as a basic building blo...
Michel Hurfin, Michel Raynal
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
A polynomial algorithm for decentralized Markov decision processes with temporal constraints
One of the difficulties to adapt MDPs for the control of cooperative multi-agent systems, is the complexity issued from Decentralized MDPs. Moreover, existing approaches can not ...
Aurélie Beynier, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
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DGO
2007
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15 years 4 months ago
Event-triggered data and knowledge sharing among collaborating government organizations
Solving complex global problems such as illegal immigration, border control, and terrorism requires government organizations at all levels to share not only data but, more importa...
Seema Degwekar, Jeff DePree, Howard W. Beck, Carla...