Nelson Minar

COMPUTATIONAL MEDIA FOR MOBILE AGENTS FOR MAS737: SOFTWARE AGENTS SEMINAR (2007)

Nelson Minar

Exploration of issues of using mobile agents to access computational resources distributed on the Internet. The design of mobile agent systems in which no central controller orchestrates computations...

THE VIRTUALIZATION OF THE MARKETPLACE FOR MAS 714J: EVOLVING CONCEPTIONS OF SYSTEMS AND THE SELF (2007)

Nelson Minar

Marketplaces are an important system in our society. The marketplace is the embodiment of a society's economy, a system whereby objects exchange hands. Marketplaces are also an important social...

Vortex Dynamics and Entropic Coulomb Forces in Ising and Potts Antiferromagnets and Ice Models (1999)

Moore, Cristopher, Nordahl, Mats G., Minar, Nelson, Shalizi, Cosma

We study the dynamics of topological defects in the triangular Ising antiferromagnet, a related model on the square lattice equivalent to the six-vertex ice model, and the three-state...

Cooperating mobile agents for dynamic network routing (1999)

Nelson Minar, Kwindla Hultman, Kramer Pattie Maes

Contemporary computer networks are heterogeneous; even a single network consists of many kinds of processors and communications channels. Networks are also inherently decentralized; capability is...

A Survey of the NTP Network (1999)

Nelson Minar

The Network Time Protocol creates a network of hosts on the Internet that synchronize time. This paper describes the methods and results of a survey of the NTP network conducted by a “spider ”...

Wearable computing meets ubiquitous computing: Reaping the best of both worlds (1999)

Bradley J. Rhodes, Nelson Minar, Josh Weaver

This paper describes what we see as fundamental difficulties in both the pure ubiquitous computing and pure wearable computing paradigms when applied to context-aware applications. In particular,...

Wearable computing meets ubiquitous computing: Reaping the best of both worlds (1999)

Bradley J. Rhodes, Nelson Minar, Josh Weaver

This paper describes what we see as fundamental diculties in both the pure ubiquitous computing and pure wearable computing paradigms when applied to context-aware applications. In particular,...

A Survey of the NTP Network (1999)

Nelson Minar

The Network Time Protocol creates a network of hosts on the Internet that synchronize time. This paper describes the methods and results of a survey of the NTP network conducted by a "spider...

Hive: Distributed agents for networking things (1999)

Nelson Minar, Matthew Gray, Oliver Roup, Raffi Krikorian, Pattie Maes

Hive is a distributed agents platform, a decentralized system for building applications by networking local system resources. This paper presents the architecture of Hive, concentrating on the idea...

Hive: Distributed Agents for Networking Things (1999)

Nelson Minar, Matthew Gray, Oliver Roup, Raffi Krikorian, Pattie Maes

Hive is a distributed agents platform, a decentralized system for building applications by networking local system resources. This paper presents the architecture of Hive, concentrating on the idea...

Tutorial: Mobile Software Agents for Dynamic Routing (1999)

Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Nelson Minar, Pattie Maes

As portable digital devices of all kinds proliferate, wireless networks that allow for flexible, timely and efficient data communication become more and more important. Networks for mobile devices...

Cooperating Mobile Agents for Mapping Networks (1999)

Nelson Minar, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Pattie Maes

. Contemporary computer networks are heterogeneous; even a single network consists of many kinds of processors and communications channels. But few programming tools embrace, or even acknowledge,...

Visualizing the Crowds at a Web Site (1999)

Nelson Minar

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Cooperating Mobile Agents for Dynamic Network Routing (1999)

Nelson Minar, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Pattie Maes

this paper we present a contrasting model, a dynamic, wireless, peer to peer network with routing tasks performed in a decentralized and distributed fashion by mobile software agents that cooperate...

Designing an ecology of distributed agents /--by Nelson Minar. (1998)

Minar, Nelson.

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 1998.

Cooperating mobile agents for mapping networks (1998)

Nelson Minar, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Pattie Maes

Abstract. Contemporary computer networks are heterogeneous; even a single network consists of many kinds of processors and communications channels. But few programming tools embrace, or even...

Cooperating mobile agents for mapping networks (1998)

Nelson Minar, Kwindla Hultman Kramer, Pattie Maes

Abstract. Contemporary computer networks are heterogeneous; even a single network consists of many kinds of processors and communications channels. But few programming tools embrace, or even...

Designing An Ecology Of Distributed Agents (1998)

Pattie Maes, Stephen A. Benton, Nelson Minar, Nelson Minar, Nelson Minar

The Internet is a rich environment for computation. There is a need for design principles to organize distributed computational activity on the Internet, something analogous to the way the World Wide...

The Swarm Simulation System: A Toolkit for Building Multi-Agent Simulations (1996)

Nelson Minar, Roger Burkhart Y, Chris Langton Z

Swarm is a multi-agent software platform for the simulation of complex adaptive systems. In the Swarm system the basic unit of simulation is the swarm, a collection of agents executing a schedule of...

Askenazi M (1996)

Nelson Minar, Roger Burkhart, Chris Langton

Swarm is a multi-agent software platform for the simulation of complex adaptive systems. In the Swarm system the basic unit of simulation is the swarm, a collection of agents executing a schedule of...

The Swarm Simulation System: A Toolkit for Building Multi-agent Simulations (1996)

Nelson Minar, Roger Burkhart, Chris Langton, Manor Askenazi

Swarm is a multi-agent software platform for the simulation of complex adaptive systems. In the Swarm system the basic unit of simulation is the swarm, a collection of agents executing a schedule of...

Entropic Coulomb Forces in Ising and Potts Antiferromagnets and Ice Models

Cristopher Moore, Mats G. Nordahl, Nelson Minar, Cosma Shalizi

We study topological defects in the triangular Ising antiferromagnet, a related model on the square lattice equivalent to the six-vertex ice model, and the three-state antiferromagnetic Potts model...

The Swarm Simulation System: A Toolkit for Building Multi-Agent Simulations

Nelson Minar, Rogert Burkhart, Chris Langton, Manor Askenazi

Swarm is a multi-agent software platform for the simulation of complex adaptive systems. In the Swarm system the basic unit of si8mulation is the swarm, a collection of agents executing a schedule of...