From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...
The increased complexity of today's distributed, composite, Web-based systems presents difficult and unique systems management problems. The way these systems interact, and th...
Jeffery Li, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Kirk Wil...
As computer systems continue to grow in power and access more networked content and services, we believe there will be an increasing need to provide more user-centric systems that...
Because they are required to support component deployment and composition, modern execution environments embody a number of common features such as dynamic linking and support for ...
Agents can freely migrate among open MASs in order to obtain resources or services not found locally. In this scenario, agent actions should be guided for avoiding unexpected behav...