Abstract. Fusion queries search for information integrated from distributed, autonomous sources over the Internet. We investigate techniques for e cient processing of fusion querie...
The messiahs project is investigating mechanisms that support task placement in heterogeneous, distributed, autonomous systems. messiahs provides a substrate on which scheduling a...
Abstract. DDH extends the idea of dynamic hashing algorithms to distributed systems. DDH spreads data across multiple servers in a network using a novel autonomous location discove...
In large-scale, distributed software systems, an important management undertaking concerns the creation and runtime modification of application instances. This short paper propose...
Abstract. In this paper an agent-based segmentation approach is presented and discussed. The approach consists in the utilization of autonomous agents for the segmentation of a ran...