Embodied agents or humanoid avatars may effectively be used to communicate with human users. Currently there is a wide range of specification formalisms and scripting languages f...
Sensor networks are a major new area of research. Some sensor applications, such as video surveillance, will need to be tethered for reasons of bandwidth and power requirements. T...
In-memory data sharing for grids allow location-transparent access to data stored in volatile memory. Existing Grid middlewares typ- ically support only explicit data transfer betw...
We describe a novel scalable group membership algorithm designed for wide area networks WANs. Our membership service does not evolve from existing LAN-oriented membership servic...
Idit Keidar, Jeremy B. Sussman, Keith Marzullo, Da...
In order to show that the parallel co-evolution of di erent heuristic methods may lead to an e cient search strategy, we have hybridized three heuristic agents of complementary beh...