The file-bundle caching problem arises frequently in scientific applications where jobs process several files concurrently. Consider a host system in a data-grid that maintains...
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems (MAS). Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) involves partitioning a set of agents into coa...
A cellular automaton is a discrete, dynamical system composed of very simple, uniformly interconnected cells. Cellular automata may be seen as an extreme form of simple, localized...
The development and use of cluster based computing is increasingly becoming an effective approach for solving high performance computing problems. The trend of moving away from sp...
We address the problem of optimizing the distribution of partially replicated databases over a computer network. Replication is used to increase data availability in the presence ...
Sarah Abdul-Wahid, Razvan Andonie, Joseph Lemley, ...