This paper describes Project Kittyhawk, an undertaking at IBM Research to explore the construction of a nextgeneration platform capable of hosting many simultaneous web-scale work...
The instability of the tree-like multicast overlay caused by nodes' abrupt departures is considered as one of the major problems for peer-to-peer (P2P) multicast systems. In ...
Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems that are composed of multiple autonomous agents. The aim of such interactions is to reach agreements through an itera...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
Range queries, retrieving all keys within a given range, is an important add-on for Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs), as they rely only on exact key matching lookup. In this paper we...
Manyversions of Unix provide facilities for user-levelpacket capture, making possible the use of general purpose workstations for network monitoring. Because network monitors run ...