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ATAL
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Resolving conflict and inconsistency in norm-regulated virtual organizations
Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Effective and efficient compromise recovery for weakly consistent replication
Weakly consistent replication of data has become increasingly important both for loosely-coupled collections of personal devices and for large-scale infrastructure services. Unfor...
Prince Mahajan, Ramakrishna Kotla, Catherine C. Ma...
CCGRID
2009
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Failure-Aware Construction and Reconfiguration of Distributed Virtual Machines for High Availability Computing
In large-scale clusters and computational grids, component failures become norms instead of exceptions. Failure occurrence as well as its impact on system performance and operatio...
Song Fu
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 25 days ago
Convergence analysis for collective vocabulary development
We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...
Jun Wang, Les Gasser, Jim Houk
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
On the computational power of oblivious robots: forming a series of geometric patterns
We study the computational power of a distributed system consisting of simple autonomous robots moving on the plane. The robots are endowed with visual perception but do not have ...
Shantanu Das, Paola Flocchini, Nicola Santoro, Mas...