Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) systems integrate the technologies of virtual reality and distributed system to allow users to interact with each other in a realistic virtua...
Given a set of peers with overlapping interests where each peer wishes to keep track of new documents that are relevant to their interests, we propose a self-organizing peerto-pee...
Hathai Tanta-ngai, Evangelos E. Milios, Vlado Kese...
The aim of COMPASS (short for COM mon Positioning Architecture for Several Sensors) is to realize a location infrastructure which can make use of a multitude of different sensors,...
: Everyone realizes how powerful the few big Web search engine companies have become, both in terms of financial resources due to soaring stock quotes and in terms of the still hid...