This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
The Java programming language and environment is stimulating new research activities in many areas of computing, not the least of which is parallel computing. Parallel techniques ...
In self-adaptive systems, metadata about resources in the system (e.g., services, nodes) must be dynamically published, updated, and discarded. Current adaptive middleware approach...
Johannes Oudenstad, Romain Rouvoy, Frank Eliassen,...
The practical realization of managing and executing large scale scientific computations efficiently and reliably is quite challenging. Scientific computations often invo...
Yong Zhao, Ioan Raicu, Ian T. Foster, Mihael Hateg...
This paper explores the problem of dynamically scheduling large scale applications over wide area networks and then proposes an adaptive scheduling algorithm to provide quality of...