One major factor that heavily affects the performance of a content distribution network (CDN) is placement of the surrogates. Previous works take a network-centric approach and con...
The concepts of autonomous agent and multi-agent system appropriate levels of abstraction for the design, implementation and simulation of many complex, distributed computational s...
Michael Luck, Peter McBurney, Jorge Gonzalez-Palac...
Recently, the 802.11e Working Group (WG) has proposed the Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF), which has a HCF Controlled Channel Access (HCCA) and an Enhanced Distributed Coordinat...
Gennaro Boggia, Pietro Camarda, F. A. Favia, Luigi...
Computational grid provides a platform for exploiting various computational resources over wide area networks. One of the concerns in implementing computational grid environment is...
Today, there is an increasing demand to share data with complex data types (e.g., multi-dimensional) over large numbers of data sources. One of the key challenges is sharing these ...