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2005
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Database System Architecture - A Walk Through Time: From Centralized Platform to Mobile Computing - Keynote Address
Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
Ali R. Hurson, Yu Jiao
AAAI
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Centralized, Distributed or Something Else? Making Timely Decisions in Multi-Agent Systems
In multi-agent systems, agents need to share information in order to make good decisions. Who does what in order to achieve this matters a lot. The assignment of responsibility in...
Tim Harbers, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Pedro A. Szekely
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
On the computational power of oblivious robots: forming a series of geometric patterns
We study the computational power of a distributed system consisting of simple autonomous robots moving on the plane. The robots are endowed with visual perception but do not have ...
Shantanu Das, Paola Flocchini, Nicola Santoro, Mas...
DNIS
2005
Springer
112views Database» more  DNIS 2005»
14 years 29 days ago
Modelling Peer-to-Peer Data Networks Under Complex System Theory
: A Peer-to-peer Data Network (PDN) is an open and evolving society of peer nodes that assemble into a network to share their data for mutual benefit. PDNs are enabled by distribu...
Cyrus Shahabi, Farnoush Banaei Kashani
AICOM
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
The emergent computational potential of evolving artificial living systems
The computational potential of artificial living systems can be studied without knowing the algorithms that govern their behavior. Modeling single organisms by means of socalled c...
Jirí Wiedermann, Jan van Leeuwen