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ICANN
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Varying the Population Size of Artificial Foraging Swarms on Time Varying Landscapes
Abstract. Swarm Intelligence (SI) is the property of a system whereby the collective behaviors of (unsophisticated) entities interacting locally with their environment cause cohere...
Carlos Fernandes, Vitorino Ramos, Agostinho C. Ros...
IWDC
2005
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Oasis: A Hierarchical EMST Based P2P Network
Peer-to-peer systems and applications are distributed systems without any centralized control. P2P systems form the basis of several applications, such as file sharing systems and ...
Pankaj Ghanshani, Tarun Bansal
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Characterization and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Architectural Styles
We argue that it is useful to study classes of Multi-Agent System (MAS) architectures, corresponding to architectural styles in addition to particular tures. In this work we focus ...
Paul Davidsson, Stefan J. Johansson, Mikael Svahnb...
VLDB
2005
ACM
93views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
The TEXTURE Benchmark: Measuring Performance of Text Queries on a Relational DBMS
We introduce a benchmark called TEXTURE (TEXT Under RElations) to measure the relative strengths and weaknesses of combining text processing with a relational workload in an RDBMS...
Vuk Ercegovac, David J. DeWitt, Raghu Ramakrishnan
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Resource Allocation in the Grid Using Reinforcement Learning
One of the main challenges in Grid computing is efficient allocation of resources (CPU-hours, network bandwidth, etc.) to the tasks submitted by users. Due to the lack of centrali...
Aram Galstyan, Karl Czajkowski, Kristina Lerman