— Management of power and other resources that effect field life is an important consideration in sensor networks. This paper presents and compares alternative agent paradigms ap...
Application layer networks are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual compute...
Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pa...
This paper presents a new distributed computing framework for Many Task Computing (MTC) applications, based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). A lightweight...
Lance Stout, Michael A. Murphy, Sebastien Goasguen
The concurrent growth of on-line communities exhibiting large-scale social structure, and of large decentralized peer-to-peer file-sharing systems, has stimulated new interest in...
In many multi-agent applications such as distributed sensor nets, a network of agents act collaboratively under uncertainty and local interactions. Networked Distributed POMDP (ND...