Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...
—Numerical simulation of physical phenomena is now an accepted way of scientific inquiry. However, the field is still evolving, with a profusion of new solution and grid-generati...
Raghu Machiraju, Zhifan Zhu, Bryan Fry, Robert J. ...
In this paper we propose Recon, a new general approach to concurrency debugging. Recon goes beyond just detecting bugs, it also presents to the programmer short fragments of buggy...
Many situations present a social choice problem where different self-interested agents have to agree on joint, coordinated decisions. For example, power companies have to agree o...
Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...