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MOBICOM
1999
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Multicast Operation of the Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol
An ad-hoc network is the cooperative engagement of a collection of typically wireless mobile nodes without the required intervention of any centralized access point or existing ...
Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, Charles E. Perkins
IWAI
1999
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Redesigning the Agents' Decision Machinery
In a multi-agent system, agents must decide what to do and by what order. Autonomy is a key notion in such a system, since it is mainly the autonomy of the agents that makes the en...
Luis Antunes, Helder Coelho
HPDC
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient Coupling of Parallel Applications Using PAWS
PAWS (Parallel Application WorkSpace) is a software infrastructure for use in connecting separate parallel applications within a component-like model. A central PAWS Controller co...
Peter H. Beckman, Patricia K. Fasel, William F. Hu...
HPDC
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Matchmaking: Distributed Resource Management for High Throughput Computing
Conventional resource management systems use a system model to describe resources and a centralized scheduler to control their allocation. We argue that this paradigm does not ada...
Rajesh Raman, Miron Livny, Marvin H. Solomon
DAI
1998
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Physically Based, Self-Organizing Cellular Automata
A physically based system of interacting polyhedral objects is used to model self-assembly and spontaneous organization of complex structures. The surfaces of the polyhedra in the ...
Alan Dorin