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COORDINATION
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Lightweight Coordination Middleware for Mobile Computing
This paper presents Limone, a new coordination model that facilitates rapid application development over ad hoc networks consisting of logically mobile agents and physically mobile...
Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Gregory Hack...
ICALP
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Coordination Mechanisms
Abstract. We introduce the notion of coordination mechanisms to improve the performance in systems with independent selfish and noncolluding agents. The quality of a coordination ...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Akash Nan...
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Ordering Systems: Coordinative Practices and Artifacts in Architectural Design and Planning
In their cooperative effort, architects depend critically on elaborate coordinative practices and artifacts. The article presents, on the basis of an in-depth study of architectura...
Kjeld Schmidt, Ina Wagner
IMR
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Comparison of Inexact Newton and Coordinate Descent Mesh Optimization Techniques
We compare inexact Newton and coordinate descent methods for optimizing the quality of a mesh by repositioning the vertices, where quality is measured by the harmonic mean of the ...
Lori Freitag Diachin, Patrick M. Knupp, Todd S. Mu...
DALT
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Lightweight Coordination Calculus for Agent Systems
The concept of a social norm is used in multi-agent systems to specify behaviours required of agents interacting in a given social context. We describe a method for specifying soci...
David Robertson