To provide data consistency in the presence of failures and concurrency, database methods will continue to be important to the processing of shared information in a mobile computi...
A number of experiments regarding the placement of instructions, private data and shared data in the Non-Uniform-Memory-Access multiprocessor, RP3 has been performed. Three Scient...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously search for and synthesize user-oriented knowledge (target knowledge) in large local or distributed databases. A knowledge ge...
: The effectiveness of semantic applications can be increased significantly if the system does not urge the users to take care of explicit semantic annotation creation. Today, sema...