Middle-agents are used by end-agents to locate service providers in multi-agent systems. One central middle-agent represents a single point of failure and communication bottleneck ...
—Motivated by the fact that most of the existing QoS service composition solutions have limited scalability, we develop a hierarchical-based solution framework to achieve scalabi...
Jingwen Jin, Jin Liang, Jingyi Jin, Klara Nahrsted...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies promise to provide efficient distribution, sharing and management of resources, such as storage, processing, routing and other sundry service capabi...
In recent years, overlay networks have become an effective alternative to IP multicast for efficient point to multipoint communication across the Internet. Typically, nodes self-...
Dejan Kostic, Adolfo Rodriguez, Jeannie R. Albrech...
Data centers constructed as clusters of inexpensive machines have compelling cost-performance benefits, but developing services to run on them can be challenging. This paper repo...