Abstract. By locally caching data, mobile hosts can operate while disconnected from the central server, however, consistency of data becomes more difficult to maintain. In this pap...
Abstract. This paper presents Combine, a distributed directory protocol for shared objects, designed for large-scale distributed systems. Directory protocols support move requests,...
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) has emerged as a useful technique for multiagent coordination. While previous DCOP work focuses on optimizing a single team objective, i...
Managing large scale UNIX networks so that users can use resources on multiple systems is traditionally performed using NIS, NFS, and DNS. Proper use of these tools requires exact...
an abstract model for information sharing and integration and use it to develop an architecture for building open, component-based, interoperable systems. A geographic information ...