Abstract— Markets and auctions have been proposed as mechanisms for efficiently and fairly allocating resources in a number of different computational settings. Economic approac...
Abstract. Using mobile agent systems, cooperative distributed applications that run over the Internet can be constructed flexibly. However, there are some problems: it is difficul...
Abstract Oliver Diessel1 and Hossam ElGindy2 1Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Newcastle...
Abstract. Several computing environments including wide area networks and nondedicated networks of workstations are characterized by frequent unavailability of the participating ma...
Abstract. We study the impact of malicious synchronization on computer systems that serve customers periodically. Systems supporting automatic periodic updates are common in web se...
Mun Choon Chan, Ee-Chien Chang, Liming Lu, Peng So...