Companies cooperating in the framework of a virtual enterprise have increasing demands for systems on which to base applications for their particular environment: groups of worker...
Abstract. Coordination is an essential technique in cooperative, distributed multiagent systems. However, sophisticated coordination strategies are not always cost-effective in all...
Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad application combines computational “vertices” with communication ...
Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrel...
Abstract. Advances in wireless and mobile communication technologies have enabled the development of various RFID-based systems and applications in addition to the extension of the...
MANET environments suffer from changing connectivity conditions and radio contention among stations that conform it. Despite the several on-going endeavors, no simple and effectiv...
Carlos Miguel Tavares Calafate, Pietro Manzoni, Ma...