Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are slowly moving from application-specific architectures to a generic serviceoriented design framework. The idea is to allow a dynamic collection of P...
Abstract. Combinatorial Auctions are an attractive application of intelligent agents; their applications are countless and are shown to provide good revenues. On the other hand, on...
Marco Alberti, Federico Chesani, Alessio Guerri, M...
Modern computers have taken advantage of the instruction-level parallelism (ILP) available in programs with advances in both architecture and compiler design. Unfortunately, large...
The mobility of terminals and users is a crucial issue in the open global system represented by the Internet. Supporting terminal and user mobility requires a middleware infrastru...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Cesare Stefanel...
The term distributed computing conjures the image of a fixed network structure whose nodes support the execution of processes that communicate with each other via messages traveli...
Gruia-Catalin Roman, Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Mur...