—Resource provisioning for N-tier web applications in Clouds is non-trivial due to at least two reasons. First, there is an inherent optimization conflict between cost of resour...
PengCheng Xiong, Zhikui Wang, Simon Malkowski, Qin...
The (M, W)-controller, originally studied by Afek, Awerbuch, Plotkin, and Saks, is a basic distributed tool that an abstraction for managing the consumption of a global resource i...
The Mobile Agent technology has already shown its advantages, but at the same time has already remarked new problems currently limiting its diffusion in commercial environments. A...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...
Abstract. Control systems for electrical microgrids rely ever more on heterogeneous off-the-shelf technology for hardware, software and networking among the intelligent electronic ...
Scalable coordination is a key challenge in deployment of multiagent systems. Resource usage is one part of agent behavior which naturally lends itself to abstraction. CyberOrgs i...