We address the problem of coordinating the plans and schedules for a team of agents in an uncertain and dynamic environment. Bounded rationality, bounded communication, subjectivi...
Wireless sensor networks consist of a system of distributed sensors embedded in the physical world, and promise to allow observation of previously unobservable phenomena. Since th...
Ramakrishna Gummadi, Nupur Kothari, Todd D. Millst...
Group communication primitives have broad utility as building blocks for distributed applications. The challenge is to create and maintain the distributed structures that support ...
Matei Ripeanu, Adriana Iamnitchi, Ian T. Foster, A...
In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...
The peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications are becoming increasingly popular and account for more than 70% of the Internet's bandwidth usage. Measurement studies show th...