Abstract. We propose and discuss foundations for programmable overlay networks and overlay computing systems. Such overlays are built over a large number of distributed computation...
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Multi-agent systems are prone to failures typical of any distributed system. Agents and resources may become unavailable due to machine crashes, communication breakdowns, process ...
Recent developments in information and communication technology have set in motion a revolution within the Banking sector which has resulted in a new channel for banking services ...
Despite a large research effort, software distributed shared memory systems have not been widely used to run parallel applications across clusters of computers. The higher perform...