In this paper we introduce Social VPNs, a novel system architecture which leverages existing social networking infrastructures to enable ad-hoc VPNs which are self-configuring, s...
Renato J. O. Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Pierre S...
Abstract—In this paper, we focus on applications with quantitative QoS (Quality of Service) requirements in their end-toend response time. Two types of quantitative QoS garantees...
Temporal dependence within the workload of any computing or networking system has been widely recognized as a significant factor affecting performance. More specifically, burstin...
Evgenia Smirni, Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska,...
Multiagent environments are often not cooperative nor collaborative; in many cases, agents have conflicting interests, leading to adversarial interactions. This paper presents a ...
Inon Zuckerman, Sarit Kraus, Jeffrey S. Rosenschei...
Integer Linear Programs are widely used in areas such as routing problems, scheduling analysis and optimization, logic synthesis, and partitioning problems. As many of these proble...