The Grid community is actively working on defining, deploying and standardizing protocols, mechanisms, and infrastructure to support decentralized, seamless, and secure interacti...
The adequate location of wells in oil and environmental applications has a significant economical impact on reservoir management. However, the determination of optimal well locatio...
Manish Parashar, Vincent Matossian, Wolfgang Bange...
Partial replication is one type of optimization to speed up execution of queries submitted to large datasets. In partial replication, a portion of the dataset is extracted, re-org...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
This paper proposes an evolutionary framework where a network service is created from a group of autonomous agents that interact and evolve. Agents in our framework are capable of ...