Given a large group of cooperative agents, selecting the right coordination or conflict resolution strategy can have a significant impact on their performance (e.g., speed of co...
Cloud computing has seen tremendous growth, particularly for commercial web applications. The on-demand, pay-as-you-go model creates a flexible and cost-effective means to access c...
Keith R. Jackson, Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Krishna Mu...
We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and i...
Chip multiprocessors (CMP) are widely used for high performance computing. Further, these CMPs are being configured in a hierarchical manner to compose a node in a cluster system....
Xingfu Wu, Valerie E. Taylor, Charles W. Lively, S...
Performance analysis of high performance systems is a difficult task. Current tools have proven successful in analysis tasks but their implementation is limited in several respects...