Traditional resource management techniques (resource allocation, admission control and scheduling) have been found to be inadequate for many shared Grid and distributed systems th...
Online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending organizations enable an individual to obtain an unsecured loan from a collection of individuals without the participation of a bank. Previous res...
Abstract—In future massively distributed service-based computational systems, resources will span many locations, organisations and platforms. In such systems, the ability to all...
Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide a promising technology for addressing problems such as search and rescue missions, mine sweeping, and surveillance. These problems are a form of ...
—This paper studies economic models of user participation incentive in participatory sensing applications. User participation is the most important element in participatory sensi...