—Federated computing environments offer requestors the ability to dynamically invoke services offered by collaborating providers in the virtual service network. Without an effici...
Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek, provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discovery...
Enabling a sophisticated Demand Response (DR) framework, whereby individual consumers adapt their electricity consumption in response to price variations, is a major objective of ...
Crowd simulations require both rendering visually plausible images and managing the behavior of autonomous agents. Therefore, these applications need an efficient design that allo...
As ICT services are becoming more ubiquitous and mobile and access technologies grow to be more heterogeneous and complex, we are witnessing the increasing importance of two relat...
Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, Dario Di Sorte, Mauro Femm...