Up until now little support has been provided for shared state systems in environments with highly unpredictable network connections, such as mobile networks. Shared state conflic...
The design and development of Internet applications can take advantage of a paradigm based on autonomous and mobile agents. However, agent mobility introduces peculiar coordinatio...
Agents that operate in a real-world environment have to process an abundance of information, which may be ambiguous or noisy. We present a method inspired by cognitive research tha...
Maria E. Niessen, Gert Kootstra, Sjoerd de Jong, T...
Hardware trends suggest that large-scale CMP architectures, with tens to hundreds of processing cores on a single piece of silicon, are iminent within the next decade. While exist...
Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Anwar M. Ghul...
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...