Distributed data processing is becoming a reality. Businesses want to do it for many
reasons, and they often must do it in order to stay competitive. While much of the …

This paper surveys the emerging science of how to design a``COllective
INtelligence''(COIN). A COIN is a large multi-agent system where:(i) There is little to no …

The first edition of this book appeared in 1991 when the technology was new and there were
not too many products. In the Preface to the first edition, we had quoted Michael Stonebraker …

OceanStore is a utility infrastructure designed to span the globe and provide continuous
access to persistent information. Since this infrastructure is comprised of untrusted servers …

Due to the increasing sophistication and miniaturization of computational components,
complex, distributed systems of interacting agents are becoming ubiquitous. Such systems …

We discuss about the IrisNet (Internet-scale resource-intensive sensor network services)
project at Intel Research, we design an architecture and build a system that enable easy …

The emergence of powerful portable computers, along with advances in wireless
communication technologies, has made mobile computing a reality. Among the applications …

Database designers often point out that eager, update everywhere replication su ers from
high deadlock rates, message overhead and poor response times. In this paper, we show …

In wide area computing systems, it is often desirable to create remote read-only copies
(replicas) of files. Replication can be used to reduce access latency, improve data locality …

The requirements of wide-area distributed database systems differ dramatically from those of
local-area network systems. In a wide-area network (WAN) configuration, individual sites …