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AO
2007
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14 years 10 months ago
Let's talk about our "being": A linguistic-based ontology framework for coordinating agents
Abstract. In open scenarios, agents willing to cooperate must impact the communication barrier between them and their unknown partners. If agents are not relying on any agreement a...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Savino Sguera, Armando Stel...
JSAC
2008
123views more  JSAC 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
A Game Theoretical Framework for Dynamic Pricing-Based Routing in Self-Organized MANETs
In self-organized mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) where each user is its own authority, fully cooperative behaviors, such as unconditionally forwarding packets for each other or ho...
Zhu Ji, Wei Yu, K. J. Ray Liu
ACNS
2003
Springer
168views Cryptology» more  ACNS 2003»
15 years 3 months ago
PLI: A New Framework to Protect Digital Content for P2P Networks
In this paper, we first propose a novel Public License Infrastructure (PLI) that uses cryptographic threshold secret sharing schemes to provide decentralized public license service...
Guofei Gu, Bin B. Zhu, Shipeng Li, Shiyong Zhang
ICC
2009
IEEE
154views Communications» more  ICC 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Load Balancing vs. Distributed Rate Limiting: An Unifying Framework for Cloud Control
— With the expansion of cloud-based services, the question as to how to control usage of such large distributed systems has become increasingly important. Load balancing (LB), an...
Rade Stanojevic, Robert Shorten
ECIS
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Adoption trends in application service provisioning: an exploratory field study of small and medium-size enterprises
This paper describes an exploratory field study on the adoption of Application Service Provisioning (ASP) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Rooted in Merton’s Motiva...
Ryan Peterson, Alea M. Fairchild