Distributing Risks: Allocation Principles for Distributing Reversible and Irreversible Losses

Distributing Data for Teleimmersion

This paper is intended to provide a general overview of the emergent field of teleimmersion. We detail some of the major issues facing teleimmersive application developers and suggest seven significant factors that determine how data should be distributed. In particular the impact of data size on delivery of quality-of-service requirements is examined. A flexible model for data sharing in distr...

Publishing and Distributing

Distributing agents

We show that the conceptual parallelism underlying multi-agent systems (MAS) and the parallelism as thought in the field of distributed systems in computer science are not the image one of each other. One should distinguish between the two notions of coexisting Agents and distributed processes in order to make them converge afterwards. Otherwise, the risk is to reduce the parallelism of the MAS...

Distributing Identity

This paper considers distributed protocols for assigning IDs. Normally the maker of an RFID system would simply assign each ID sequentially in the factory, or the user would manually burn it in to EPROM. But it may be cheaper and simpler to manufacture units identically, and build the capability to become unique into each one. I describe three distributed protocols which make use of hardware ra...

A Framework for Distributing and Parallelizing Secondary Mem8ry Search Structures a Framework for Distributing and Parallelizing Secondary Mem8ry Search Structures a Framework for Distributing and Parallelizlng Secondary

Introduction Traditional architectures which consist of a single processor, a small main memory, and secondary memory devices (e.g. disks), are gradually being replaced by multiprocessor multi-disk architec­ tures with a relatively large main m~mory. The processors either reside in the same site and communicate via the shared memory, or reside in different sites and communicate via a local netw...