: We present a new model for handling messages and state in a distributed application that we call Messages in Local Transactions (MLT). Under this model, messages and data are not...
Although the ant metaphor has been successfully applied to routing of data packets both in wireless and fixed networks, little is known yet about its appropriateness for search i...
In this paper, we present a system partitioning technique in which the input system specification is based on C++ language. The proposed technique processes data and precedence de...
In this paper we present a method for finding general dependencies between individual agents in a multi-agent system. We use mutual information as the general measure for dependen...
George Mathews, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, Mikhail Pro...
In this paper we consider a failure prone, single machine, single part-type, limited inventory, manufacturing system subject to a non-homogeneous Markov failure/repair process wit...