Workflow management, one of the important technologies for supporting collaborative work, requires database technologies like distributed data management or transaction management...
We introduce transactors, a fault-tolerant programming model for composing loosely-coupled distributed components running in an unreliable environment such as the internet into sy...
Many applications of networks of agents, including mobile sensor networks, unmanned air vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, involve 100s of agents acting collaboratively und...
Janusz Marecki, Tapana Gupta, Pradeep Varakantham,...
This paper defines an approach to simulation of natural systems, inspired by complex systems theory. A complex natural system is modeled as a multi-agent simulation system, agents...
There has been significant recent interest in exploring the role of coordination languages as middleware for distributed systems. These languages provide operations that allow pro...