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ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Performance models for large scale multiagent systems: using distributed POMDP building blocks
Given a large group of cooperative agents, selecting the right coordination or conflict resolution strategy can have a significant impact on their performance (e.g., speed of co...
Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe
CONCUR
1992
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
The Duality of TIme and Information
The states of a computing system bear information and change time, while its events bear time and change information. We develop a primitive algebraic model of this duality of tim...
Vaughan R. Pratt
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Novel MAC Protocol for Cooperative Downloading in Vehicular Networks
—In this paper, we propose a novel protocol called VC-MAC that utilizes the concept of cooperative communication tailored for vehicular networks, especially for gateway downloadi...
Jin Zhang, Qian Zhang, Weijia Jia
EICS
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
A toolkit for peer-to-peer distributed user interfaces: concepts, implementation, and applications
In this paper we present a software toolkit for deploying peer-topeer distributed graphical user interfaces across four dimensions: multiple displays, multiple platforms, multiple...
Jérémie Melchior, Donatien Grolaux, ...
BIRTHDAY
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A Trace Semantics for Long-Running Transactions
Abstract. A long-running transaction is an interactive component of a distributed system which must be executed as if it were a single atomic action. In principle, it should not be...
Michael J. Butler, C. A. R. Hoare, Carla Ferreira