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ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Integrating organizational control into multi-agent learning
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) algorithms suffer from slow convergence and even divergence, especially in largescale systems. In this work, we develop an organization-b...
Chongjie Zhang, Sherief Abdallah, Victor R. Lesser
HPDC
2005
IEEE
16 years 15 hour ago
CODO: firewall traversal by cooperative on-demand opening
Firewalls and network address translators (NATs) cause significant connectivity problems along with benefits such as network protection and easy address planning. Connectivity pro...
Se-Chang Son, Bill Allcock, Miron Livny
EDO
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Optimizing layered middleware
Middleware is often built using a layered architectural style. Layered design provides good separation of the different concerns of middleware, such as communication, marshaling, ...
Ömer Erdem Demir, Premkumar T. Devanbu, Eric ...
PODC
1994
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A Performance Evaluation of Lock-Free Synchronization Protocols
In this paper, we investigate the practical performance of lock-free techniques that provide synchronization on shared-memory multiprocessors. Our goal is to provide a technique t...
Anthony LaMarca
COORDINATION
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
OpenSpaces: An Object-Oriented Framework for Reconfigurable Coordination Spaces
Abstract. Tuple spaces have turned out to be one of the most fundamental abstractions for coordinating communicating agents. At the same time, researchers continue to propose new v...
Stéphane Ducasse, Thomas Hofmann, Oscar Nie...