—It is well-known that the overall efficiency of a distributed system can suffer if the participating entities seek to maximize their individual performance. Consequently, mecha...
The SharedPlans formalization of collaboration (Grosz and Kraus 1999) stipulates that collaborating agents must commit to certain decision-making processes, but it does not specif...
Self-organization is a great concept for building scalable systems consisting of a huge number of subsystems. The primary objectives are improved scalability and dynamic adaptatio...
SelectiveDynamic Manipulation (SDM) is a paradigm for interacting with objects in visualizations, Its methodsoffer a high degree of selectivity, in choosing object sets, in the se...
Mei C. Chuah, Steven F. Roth, Joe Mattis, John Kol...
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a completely distributed topology generation mechanism named HPC5 for Gnutella network. A Gnutella topology will be efficient and scalable if it...