This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
—This paper describes Herald, an agent based toolkit for dispatching and processing items in a distributed environment. Herald is suitable for scenarios where the process could b...
Christian Vecchiola, Alberto Grosso, Andrea Passad...
There is a chronic lack of shared application domains to test the research models and agent architectures on areas like negotiation, argumentation, trust and reputation. In this d...
Angela Fabregues, David Navarro, Alejandro Serrano...
In this paper, we present a mechanism to fly a swarm of UAVs with the aim of establishing a wireless backbone over a pre-specified area. The backbone is aimed at connecting interm...
Mutual exclusion locks limit concurrency but offer low latency. Software transactional memory (STM) typically has higher latency, but scales well. In this paper we propose transac...
Luke Dalessandro, David Dice, Michael L. Scott, Ni...