We investigate the applicability of multi-agent systems as a control approach for district heating systems. The consumers, i.e., the heat exchange systems, in current district hea...
Designing computing equipment for a computer laboratory is not easy. In a class in a computer laboratory, it is not unusual that all students do the same thing simultaneously. Tre...
The one issue that unites almost all approaches to distributed computing is the need to know whether certain components in the system have failed or are otherwise unavailable. Whe...
At the present time, several shortcomings prevent the more effective use and more intense application of web information systems. Recent developments that are subsumed by the term...
One of the major problems in building large-scale distributed systems is to anticipate the performance of the eventual solution before it has been built. This problem is especiall...
Yan (Jenny) Liu, Ian Gorton, Anna Liu, Shiping Che...