Multi-agent systems have proven to be a powerful technology for building complex distributed applications. However, the process of designing, configuring and deploying agent-based...
Csongor Nyulas, Martin J. O'Connor, Samson W. Tu, ...
Agents in virtual environments require a combination of perception and action to behave in an autonomous way. We extend a software architecture for the management of actions blend...
The complexity of current computing networks and the required fluidity of their operation requires autonomy to be central to the design and implementation of a managed overlay net...
Dominic Jones, John Keeney, David Lewis, Declan O'...
In this paper we construct an evaluation framework for a self-healing system, VM-Rejuv – a virtual machine based rejuvenation scheme for web-application servers – using simple...
Rean Griffith, Gail E. Kaiser, Javier Alonso L&oac...
Location-aware systems are typically deployed on a small scale and evaluated technically, in terms of absolute errors. In this paper, the authors present their experience of deplo...