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ECAI
2010
Springer
14 years 10 months ago
Optimal Task Migration in Service-Oriented Systems: Algorithms and Mechanisms
In service-oriented systems, such as grids and clouds, users are able to outsource complex computational tasks by procuring resources on demand from remote service providers. As th...
Sebastian Stein, Enrico Gerding, Nicholas R. Jenni...
MOBISYS
2006
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
FireWxNet: a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in wildland fire environments
In this paper we present FireWxNet, a multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in rugged wildland fire environments. FireWxNet provides the fire fig...
Carl Hartung, Richard Han, Carl Seielstad, Saxon H...
COR
2010
96views more  COR 2010»
14 years 10 months ago
Strong activity rules for iterative combinatorial auctions
Activity rules have emerged in recent years as an important aspect of practical auction design. The role of an activity rule in an iterative auction is to suppress strategic behav...
Pavithra Harsha, Cynthia Barnhart, David C. Parkes...
IROS
2006
IEEE
140views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Developing a non-intrusive biometric environment
— The development of large scale biometric systems requires experiments to be performed on large amounts of data. Existing capture systems are designed for fixed experiments and...
Lee Middleton, David K. Wagg, Alex I. Bazin, John ...
JNCA
2007
69views more  JNCA 2007»
14 years 9 months ago
Specifying the intertwining of cooperation and autonomy in agent-based systems
Cooperation and autonomy are two antagonistic core variables of agent-based systems, and a key challenge in designing such systems is to balance these variables appropriately. Thi...
Gerhard Weiß, Matthias Nickles, Michael Rova...