This paper presents MPIAB, an agent based architecture for parallel processing. The architecture is developed to model the functions of standard MPI using java agents. It remedies...
As storage systems scale to thousands of disks, data distribution and load balancing become increasingly important. We present an algorithm for allocating data objects to disks as...
This paper studies the optimal placement of web ļ¬les for en-route web caching. It is shown that existing placement policies are all solving restricted partial problems of the ļ¬...
The integration of printed paper and digital information enables new forms of enhanced reading. We present digitally augmented paper as a speciļ¬c application of our more general...
Defeasible Logic is a promising representation for legal knowledge that appears to overcome many of the deļ¬ciencies of previous approaches to representing legal knowledge. Unfor...