We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...
— In wireless networks, the use of collaboration has been shown to provide an increase in reliability due to an increase in diversity. Specifically it has been shown that by havi...
Patrick Tooher, Hesam Khoshneviss, M. Reza Soleyma...
When designing questionnaires there is a tradition of including items with both positive and negative wording to minimize acquiescence and extreme response biases. Two disadvantag...
We are investigating strategies for using replication to design and implement highly reliable peer-to-peer systems. In particular, we are comparing the use of whole object and blo...
Ranjita Bhagwan, David Moore, Stefan Savage, Geoff...
A dynamic time delay model for load balancing was proposed in distributed heterogeneous system by Hayat. But how to compute the load-transfer delay and the gain coefficient were n...