In this paper we present the design and implementation of a distributed index architecture to facilitate metadata discovery on large networks. Many current information discovery s...
This paper describes the design and implementation of a layered agent architecture for decision support applications in general and for distributed medical care in particular. Thre...
We address the problem of constructing multiagent systems by coordinating heterogeneous, autonomous agents, whose internal designs may not be fully known. A major application area...
The trends and recent changes in logistics lead to complex and partially conflicting requirements on logistic planning and control systems. Due to the lack of efficiency of curren...
Hagen Langer, Jan D. Gehrke, Joachim Hammer, Marti...
We study the problem of guaranteeing data durability [2] in distributed storage systems based on replication. Our work is motivated by several several recent efforts [3, 5, 1] to ...