We describe a technique for writing distributed applications which manage themselves over one or more utility computing infrastructures: by dynamically acquiring new computational...
Qin Yin, Justin Cappos, Andrew Baumann, Timothy Ro...
A widely-distributed network monitoring system requires a scalable discovery mechanism. The “Lookup Service” component of the perfSONAR framework is able to manage component r...
Jason Zurawski, Jeff W. Boote, Eric L. Boyd, Macie...
: In many of today's application programs, security functionality is inseparably intertwined with the actual mission-purpose logic. As a result, the trusted code base is unnec...
This paper describes a novel semantic framework for an agent architecture. Drawing on Shoham's work on AGENT0 (Shoham 1993), we replace Shoham's modal logic semantics wi...
Overcoming the disadvantages of equidistant discretization of continuous actions, we introduce an approach that separates time into slices of varying length bordered by certain ev...