As software organisations mature, their repositories of reusable software components from previous projects will also grow considerably. Remaining conversant with all components in...
A new priority queue structure, the queap, is introduced. The queap executes insertion in O(1) amortized time and extract-min in O(log(k+2)) amortized time if there are k items th...
Mediator systems integrate distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous data sources, but their e ective use requires the solution of hard query optimization problems. This is usuall...
The efficiency of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems is largely dependent on the overlay constructions. Due to the random selection of logical neighbors, there often exists serious topolog...
We present a multi-dimensional, multi-step negotiation mechanism for task allocation among cooperative agents based on distributed search. This mechanism uses marginal utility gai...
Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Rodion M. Podoroz...