Abstract--The development of large-scale distributed multiagent systems in open dynamic environments is a challenge. System behavior is often not predictable and can only be evalua...
Michel Oey, Sander van Splunter, Elth Ogston, Mart...
Declustering and replication are well known techniques used to improve response time of queries in parallel disk environments. As data replication incurs a penalty for updates, da...
Effective security mechanisms are essential to the widespread deployment of pervasive systems. Much of the research focus on security in pervasive computing has revolved around dis...
Abstract. This paper introduces a novel framework for designing multiagent systems, called “Distributed Agent Evolution with Dynamic Adaptation to Local Unexpected Scenarios” (...
Suranga Hettiarachchi, William M. Spears, Derek Gr...
This paper proposes a family of replication protocols based on group communication in order to address some of the concerns expressed by database designers regarding existing repl...