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POPL
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A theory of contracts for web services
Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...
Giuseppe Castagna, Nils Gesbert, Luca Padovani
AGILEDC
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment - Measuring velocity with Earned Value
: Before any of the current “agile” development methods, Earned Value Management provided information for planning and controlling complex projects by measuring how much “val...
Glen B. Alleman, Michael Henderson, Ray Seggelke
CN
2007
90views more  CN 2007»
13 years 5 months ago
A scalable solution for engineering streaming traffic in the future Internet
As traffic on the Internet continues to grow exponentially, there is a real need to solve scalability and traffic engineering simultaneously — specifically, without using over-p...
Mario Baldi, Guido Marchetto, Yoram Ofek
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Leveled Commitment Contracts with Myopic and Strategic Agents
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agent...
Martin Andersson, Tuomas Sandholm
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
118views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Modeling volatility in prediction markets
There is significant experimental evidence that prediction markets are efficient mechanisms for aggregating information and are more accurate in forecasting events than tradition...
Nikolay Archak, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis