Hector: an agent based architecture for dynamic resource management
Samuel H. Russ, K. Reece, Jonathan Robinson, Brad Meyers, D. Palanivel Rajan, Laxman Rajagopalan, Chun-Heong Tan · IEEE Concurrency · 1999
The authors present the Hector distributed runtime environment, in which "slave allocators" forward commands from the central allocation system, monitor system availability and loading, and can transparently extract detailed performance information from programs as they run. The authors detail the overall architecture of the agent-based allocation system and demonstrate its efficiency, low overhead, and utility.