We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...
Virtualization has been shown to be an attractive path to increase overall system resource utilization. The use of live virtual machine (VM) migration has enabled more effective ...
Organizational Self-Design (OSD) has been proposed as an approach to constructing suitable organizations at runtime in which the agents are responsible for constructing their own ...
Abstract. To achieve an efficient utilization of cluster systems, a proper programming and operating environment is required. In this context, mobile agents are of growing interes...
Peer-to-peer has emerged in recent years as a promising approach to providing Video-on-Demand streaming. The design space, however, is vast and still not well understood--yet choo...
Bin Fan, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Kons...