—Emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites strongly differ from usual OLTP applications. First, the transactions are encapsulated in an AP...
Lowering supply voltage is one of the most effective techniques for reducing microprocessor power consumption. Unfortunately, at low voltages, chips are very sensitive to process ...
Timothy N. Miller, Xiang Pan, Renji Thomas, Naser ...
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing offers new possibilities to scientific communities. One of the most significant is the ability to elastically provision and relin...
There is an increasing need for automated support for humans monitoring the activity of distributed teams of cooperating agents, both human and machine. We characterize the domain...
Task execution in multi-agent environments may require cooperation among agents. Given a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consider situations where ...