System performance in multi-agent resource allocation systems can often improve if individual agents reduce their activity. Agents in such systems need a way to modulate their ind...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...
During maintenance, systems are updated to correct faults, improve functionality, and adapt the software to changes in its execution environment. The typical softwareupdate proces...
Abstract--Large-scale attacks like Distributed Denial-ofService (DDoS) attacks still pose unpredictable threats to the Internet infrastructure and Internet-based business. Thus, ma...
Concern for the increasing susceptibility of processor structures to transient errors has led to several recent research efforts that propose architectural techniques to enhance r...
—This paper proposes a cache consistency scheme based on a previously proposed architecture for caching database data in MANETs. The original scheme for data caching stores the q...