—Large-scale applications are characterized by a large number of dynamic and often interactive group members. The nature of these applications is such that participants are not i...
Brian Neil Levine, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot,...
Dynamic, distributed, real-time systems control an environment that varies widely without any time-invariant statistical or deterministic characteristic, are spread across multiple...
Charles Cavanaugh, Lonnie R. Welch, Behrooz Shiraz...
This paper describes and evaluates three methods for coordinating multiple agents. These agents interact in two ways. First, they are able to work together to achieve a common poo...
Steve A. Chien, Anthony Barrett, Tara A. Estlin, G...
We describe a VRML/Java-based virtual environment that is populated with heterogeneous articulated agents. In this simulated environment, agents compete for collecting certain obj...
This work studies the interaction of Web proxy cache coherency and replacement policies using trace-driven simulations. We specifically examine the relative importance of each typ...