In this paper we study a large class of resource allocation problems with an important complication, the utilization cost of a given resource is private information of a profit ma...
We propose the design of Plug, an application to find and keep contacts with friends within many inter-connected 3D virtual worlds. Users use an instant messenger (IM)-like inter...
Recent results have established that a variety of voting rules are computationally hard to manipulate in the worst-case; this arguably provides some guarantee of resistance to man...
The MPSG (Message-based Part State Graph) model has been developed for the execution portion of shop-floor controllers that operate in a distributed and hierarchical control envir...
Devinder Thapa, Jaeil Park, Gi-Nam Wang, Dongmin S...
The open feature of peer-to-peer systems invites the spread of the malfunctioning data. Additional reputation systems are constructed to guarantee the data authenticity. One chall...