—BitTorrent is the most popular peer-to-peer software for file sharing, which has contributed to a significant portion of today’s Internet traffic. Many measurement studies ...
Current trends suggest future software systems will rely on service-discovery protocols to combine and recombine distributed services dynamically in reaction to changing condition...
Christopher Dabrowski, Kevin L. Mills, Andrew L. R...
Recent work demonstrates that directional antennas have significant potential to improve wireless network capacity in indoor environments. This paper provides a broader exploratio...
Xi Liu, Anmol Sheth, Michael Kaminsky, Konstantina...
In multi-issue negotiations, autonomous agents can act cooperatively to benefit from mutually preferred agreements. However, empirical evidence suggests that they often fail to s...
Negotiation is essential in settings where agents have conflicting interests and a desire to cooperate. In many approaches, agents are assumed to have pre-set, fixed preferences...