Interacting agents that interleave planning and execution must reach consensus on their commitments to each other. In domains where agents have varying degrees of interaction and ...
This chapter describes how astronomical imaging survey data have become a vital part of modern astronomy, how these data are archived and then served to the astronomical community...
We propose to address collective communications in distributed components through collective interfaces. Collective interfaces handle data distribution, parallelism and synchroniz...
Recently, there have been proposals for scaling-up a database system using lazy replication. In these proposals, system scale-up is achieved through the addition of secondary site...
This paper presents an architecture for web-based interaction and steering of parallel/distributed scientific applications. The architecture is composed of detachable thin-clients ...