Unstructured peer-to-peer networks are frequently used as the overlay in various middleware toolkits for emerging applications, from content discovery to query result caching to di...
This paper extends existing methods for information searching and sharing in large-scale, dynamic networks of agents, to deal with networks of heterogeneous agents: Agents that do...
Keyword-based search returns its results without concern for the information needs of users at a particular time. In general, search queries are too short to represent what users ...
This paper presents a new algorithm for enhancing the efficiency of simulation-based optimisation using local search and neural network metamodels. The local search strategy is ba...
Overlay networks have received a lot of attention due to the recent wide-spread use of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications such as SETI, Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. Through repli...