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CCGRID
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Secret sequence comparison on public grid computing resources
Once a new gene has been sequenced, it must be verified whether or not it is similar to previously sequenced genes. In many cases, the organization that sequenced a potentially n...
Ken-ichi Kurata, Hiroshi Nakamura, Vincent Breton
USENIX
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Adaptive File Transfers for Diverse Environments
This paper presents dsync, a file transfer system that can dynamically adapt to a wide variety of environments. While many transfer systems work well in their specialized context,...
Himabindu Pucha, Michael Kaminsky, David G. Anders...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Reasoning about joint beliefs for execution-time communication decisions
Just as POMDPs have been used to reason explicitly about uncertainty in single-agent systems, there has been recent interest in using multi-agent POMDPs to coordinate teams of age...
Maayan Roth, Reid G. Simmons, Manuela M. Veloso
PRIMA
2004
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Handling Emergent Resource Use Oscillations
— Distributed computing systems are increasingly being created as self-organizing collections of many autonomous (human or software) agents cooperating as peers. Peer-to-peer coo...
Mark Klein, Richard Metzler, Yaneer Bar-Yam
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
How local is that optimum? k-optimality for DCOP
In multi-agent systems where sets of joint actions (JAs) are generated, metrics are needed to evaluate these sets and efficiently allocate resources for the many JAs. For the case...
Jonathan P. Pearce, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Milind Ta...