Changing Challenges for Collaborative Algorithmics
Arnold L. Rosenberg · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
Technological advances and economic considerations have led to a wide variety of modalities of collaborative computing : the use of multiple computing agents to solve individual computational problems. Each new modality creates new challenges for the algorithm designer. Older “parallel” algorithmic devices no longer work on the newer computing platforms (at least in their original forms) and/or do not address critical problems engendered by the new platforms’ characteristics. In this chapter, the field of collaborative algorithmics is divided into four epochs, representing (one view of) the major evolutionary eras of collaborative computing platforms. The changing challenges encountered in devising algorithms for each epoch are discussed, and some notable sophisticated responses to the challenges are described. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.