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ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Integrating organizational control into multi-agent learning
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms suffer from slow convergence and even divergence, especially in largescale systems. In this work, we develop an organization-b...
Chongjie Zhang, Sherief Abdallah, Victor R. Lesser
HOTOS
2003
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Palimpsest: Soft-Capacity Storage for Planetary-Scale Services
Distributed writable storage systems typically provide NFS-like semantics and unbounded persistence for files. We claim that for planetary-scale distributed services such facilit...
Timothy Roscoe, Steven Hand
CSFW
2002
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Capturing Parallel Attacks within the Data Independence Framework
We carry forward the work described in our previous papers [3, 14, 12] on the application of data independence to the model checking of cryptographic protocols using CSP [13] and ...
Philippa J. Broadfoot, A. W. Roscoe
ICSE
2001
IEEE-ACM
15 years 6 months ago
A Web-Oriented Architectural Aspect for the Emerging Computational Tapestry
An emerging tapestry of computations will soon integrate systems around the globe. It will evolve without central control. Its complexity will be vast. We need new ideas, tools an...
Kevin J. Sullivan, Avneesh Saxena
HPDC
1999
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Process Hijacking
Process checkpointing is a basic mechanism required for providing High Throughput Computing service on distributively owned resources. We present a new process checkpoint and migr...
Victor C. Zandy, Barton P. Miller, Miron Livny