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ICALP
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
How Efficient Can Gossip Be? (On the Cost of Resilient Information Exchange)
Gossip protocols, also known as epidemic dissemination schemes, are becoming increasingly popular in distributed systems. Yet, it has remained a partially open question to determin...
Dan Alistarh, Seth Gilbert, Rachid Guerraoui, Mort...
IROS
2008
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  IROS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
A performance sensitive hormone-inspired system for task distribution amongst evolving robots
— A hormone-inspired task scheduling method is described which assigns tasks to a group of robots, taking into account the robots’ performances. This method draws on previous w...
Joanne H. Walker, Myra S. Wilson
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Brain Meets Brawn: Why Grid and Agents Need Each Other
The Grid and agent communities both develop concepts and mechanisms for open distributed systems, albeit from different perspectives. The Grid community has historically focused o...
Ian T. Foster, Nicholas R. Jennings, Carl Kesselma...
IAT
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Using Negotiation to Reduce Redundant Autonomous Mobile Program Movements
Distributed load managers exhibit thrashing where tasks are repeatedly moved between locations due to incomplete global load information. This paper shows that systems of Autonomou...
Natalia Chechina, Peter King, Phil Trinder
EKAW
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Distributed Multi-contextual Ontology Evolution - A Step Towards Semantic Autonomy
In today's world there is a need for knowledge infrastructures that can support several autonomous knowledge bases all using different ontologies and constantly adapting thes...
Maciej Zurawski