In this paper, we propose router mechanisms to regulate unresponsive best-effort traffic. By unresponsive traffic we mean flows that do not reduce their sending rate in response t...
In a multi-agent system, agents must decide what to do and by what order. Autonomy is a key notion in such a system, since it is mainly the autonomy of the agents that makes the en...
Abstract. In Distributed Problem-solving (DPS) systems a group of purposefully designed computational agents interact and co-ordinate their activities so as to jointly achieve a gl...
This paper takes a known approach for scheduling and admission control in integrated services networks1 , the Priority Token Bank (PTB), whose mechanism and performance have been ...
Large scale software is composed of libraries produced by different entities. Non-intrusive and efficient mechanisms for adapting data structures from one library to conform to AP...