Grid computing promises to become the future computing paradigm for enterprise application after having shown to be a quite effective computing paradigm for resource-intensive sci...
Abstract. Scheduling the execution of multiple concurrent tasks on shared resources such as CPUs and network links is essential to ensuring the reliable operation of many autonomic...
Terry Tidwell, Robert Glaubius, Christopher D. Gil...
In this paper we propose a formal specification of a persuasion protocol between autonomous agents using an approach based on social commitments and arguments. In order to be flexi...
Jamal Bentahar, Bernard Moulin, John-Jules Ch. Mey...
We present GlobeDB, a system for hosting Web applications that performs autonomic replication of application data. GlobeDB offers data-intensive Web applications the benefits of l...
This paper presents a decentralized approach to multiple target tracking. The novelty of this approach lies in the use of a set of autonomous while collaborative trackers to overc...