Constructing logical machines out of collections of physical machines is a well-known technique for improving the robustness and fault tolerance of distributed systems. We present...
Yair Amir, Brian A. Coan, Jonathan Kirsch, John La...
Abstract— This paper revisits burst contention resolution problems in optical burst switching (OBS) networks from the viewpoint of network utility maximization. Burst collision o...
Won-Seok Park, Minsu Shin, Hyang-Won Lee, Song Cho...
In many settings Web services are now perceived as the first choice technology to provide neatly encapsulated functionality for Web-based computation. To date, many standards hav...
Dominic Greenwood, Margaret Lyell, Ashok U. Mallya...
Intelligent agents that are intended to work in dynamic environments must be able to gracefully handle unsuccessful tasks and plans. In addition, such agents should be able to mak...
John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, ...
This paper analyzes bilateral multi-issue negotiation between selfinterested autonomous agents. The agents have time constraints in the form of both deadlines and discount factors...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....