Peer-to-peer file-sharing systems suffer from the overspecification of query results due to the fact that queries are conjunctive and the descriptions of shared files are sparse. ...
This paper presents a Multi-agent System and a Methodology to select and to integrate heterogenous and distributed information sources to make recommendations. A set of intrinsic c...
We demonstrate that the performance of commodity parallel systems significantly depends on low-level details, such as storage layout and iteration space mapping, which motivates t...
Lee W. Howes, Anton Lokhmotov, Alastair F. Donalds...
We introduce a mathematical model of components that can be used for the description of both hardware and software units forming distributed interactive systems. As part of a distr...
— The Immune System (IS) constitutes the defence mechanism of higher level organisms to micro organismic threats: it is a real distributed system providing mechanisms of adaptati...