Open multi-agent systems need to cope with the characteristics of the Internet, e.g., dynamic availability of computational resources, latency, and diversity of services. Large-sc...
Benno J. Overeinder, Frances M. T. Brazier, Olivie...
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a cluster file system, called PVFS-PM, on the SCore cluster system software. This is the first attempt to implement a cluster...
Koji Segawa, Osamu Tatebe, Yuetsu Kodama, Tomohiro...
Interprocess communication (IPC) is ubiquitous in today's computing world. One of the simplest mechanisms for IPC is shared memory. We present a system that enhances the Syst...
This paper discusses the impact of the hierarchical master-worker paradigm on performance of an application program, which solves an optimization problem by a parallel branch and ...
Agent-oriented software is promising improvements especially for the design of distributed systems. But currently, there is a substantial gap between the massive number of publica...