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,...
— In this paper we develop a theory of metamodules and an associated distributed asynchronous planner which generalizes previous work on metamodules for lattice-based modular rob...
Daniel J. Dewey, Michael P. Ashley-Rollman, Michae...
Modern organizations face increasingly complex information management requirements. A combination of commercial needs, legal liability and regulatory imperatives has created a pat...
Qing Zhang, John McCullough, Justin Ma, Nabil Sche...
Developers of highly configurable performanceintensive software systems often use a type of in-house performance-oriented "regression testing" to ensure that their modif...
Cemal Yilmaz, Arvind S. Krishna, Atif M. Memon, Ad...
New designs for petabyte-scale storage systems are now capable of transferring hundreds of gigabytes of data per second, but lack strong security. We propose a scalable and effici...