The Distributed Resource Controller (DRC) technology described in this paper provides a novel approach to interfacing applications with emerging network mechanisms to deliver Quality of Service (QoS) and controlling network resource utilization. DRC aims to unify network services (e.g., Diffserv, Intserv, and ATM) and application QoS provisioning by introducing a middleware system and a set of ...

To ease the implementation of distributed objectoriented systems we developed the PDC technique (Proxy/ DispatcherKollocutor technique), a simple and pragmatic approach to allow addressing of operating-system processes like local objects, i.e., by calling methods that can be dynamically bound. It supports not only concurrency but also distribution over machine boundaries and offers enough flexi...

Due to the ever-increasing computational capabilities and the increasing use of automated manufacturing, distributed large-scale, discrete-event manufacturing system controllers are being proposed and designed. Currently there is a large amount of research in the area of simulation of manufacturing systems, scheduling and some research in the control of automated manufacturing plants. Even inte...

We present a distributed multi-robot controller for forming spatially efficient queues of arbitrary numbers of robots. The method is formally analyzed and validated in a conventional robot simulation. This controller is based on sunflower phyllotaxis and inherits its efficient packing properties. Two measures of queue spatial efficiency are proposed and their upper bounds for the presented cont...

1 Introduction In this paper, I investigate seemingly unrelated occurrences of obstruent voicing in derived environments in three different languages: Breton, German, and Ital-ian. In the Breton dialect spoken on Île de Groix, underlyingly voiceless obstru-ents are realised as voiced when they are followed by a vowel-, or sonorant-initial word (1a). Since they do not surface as voiced when foll...

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging promising paradigm for network management because of its centralized network intelligence. However, the centralized control architecture of the software-defined networks (SDNs) brings novel challenges of reliability, scalability, fault tolerance and interoperability. In this paper, we proposed a novel clustered distributed controller architecture...

In this paper a new method for distributing and updating host name/address information in large computer networks is described. The technique uses datagrams to provide a simple transaction-based query/response service. A provisional service is being provided by the Arpanet Network Information Center (NIC) and is used by mobile packet radio terminals, as well as by several Arpanet DEC-10 hosts. ...

In this document we carry out a comparative analysis of the application of Fuzzy Logic Controllers (hereinafter FLCs), Fuzzy Temporal Rules-Based Controllers (hereinafter FTRCs), Temporal Fuzzy Logic Controllers (hereinafter TFLCs) and Faded Temporal fuzzy Logic Controllers (hereinafter FTFLCs), to improve the adaptive distributed routing. To obtain a good knowledge base the controllers were ev...