We present a formal framework of an autonomous agent as a collection of coordinated control loops, with a recurring sense, plan, act cycle. Our framework manages the information f...
In this paper, we describe the integration of dynamic right-sizing — an automatic and scalable buffer management technique for enhancing TCP performance — into GridFTP, a sub...
Internet end-systems employ various adaptation mechanisms that enable them to respond adequately to legitimate requests in overload situations. Today, these mechanisms are incorpo...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...
Cloud Computing (CC) is characterized by dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources that are provided as a service over the Internet. To date, no generally agreed scheme...
Michele Amoretti, Maria Chiara Laghi, Fabio Tasson...
Overlay topologies are now popular with many emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, to efficiently locate and retrieve information. In contrast, the focus of this work is to use ove...