We are developing an approach for P2P information systems, where the peers are modeled as autonomous agents. Agents provide services or give referrals to one another to help find...
— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
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 provides an overview of SANDS (Specialized Active Networking for Distributed Simulation), a DARPA-ITO sponsored research project that is using active networking to deve...
Steve Zabele, M. Dorsch, Zihui Ge, Ping Ji, Mark K...
ADE, autonomic distributed environment, is a system which engages autonomic elements to automatically take an existing centralized application and distribute it across available re...
Debzani Deb, M. Muztaba Fuad, Michael J. Oudshoorn