The construction of a large class of distributed systems can be simplified by leveraging middleware, which is layered between network operating systems and application components....
The emergence of the global Internet has dramatically broadened and changed the computing landscape. In particular, much of the value in contemporary computing systems derives fro...
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...
We consider the problem of broadcasting a large message in a large scale distributed platform. The message must be sent from a source node, with the help of the receiving peers whi...
A major paradigm of modeling the decision making of autonomous agents is through behavior-based network models. The network consists of distributed behaviors that compete (or coop...