Peer-to-Peer networks are gaining popularity through file-sharing communities. Most P2P networks demand a certain stability from it's nodes in order to function satisfactory. ...
This paper presents a basic framework for applying static task scheduling techniques to arbitrarily-structured task systems whose targeted execution environment is comprised of fi...
Abstract. In this paper, we show how the concepts of objects, components, features and agents are used today in the Agent Building Center (ABC) environment in order to marry the mo...
High dimensional data that lies on or near a low dimensional manifold can be described by a collection of local linear models. Such a description, however, does not provide a glob...
Sam T. Roweis, Lawrence K. Saul, Geoffrey E. Hinto...
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,...