Our current research into programming models for parallel web services composition is targeted at providing mechanisms for obtaining higher throughput for large scale compute and ...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
The application of software agent technology to the management of communications' infrastructures is a challenging domain as it requires management on different time scales a...
Alex L. Hayzelden, John Bigham, Stefan Poslad, Phi...
A spatial computer is a distributed multi-agent system that is embedded in a geometric space. A key challenge is engineering local agent interaction rules that enable spatial comp...
Abstract—Performance is a key feature of large-scale computing systems. However, the achieved performance when a certain program is executed is significantly lower than the maxi...
Understanding the performance of distributed systems requires correlation of thousands of interactions between numerous components — a task best left to a computer. Today’s sy...
Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Dush...