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MOBICOM
1999
ACM
15 years 10 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
15 years 10 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
15 years 10 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
15 years 10 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
15 years 10 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