We investigate the circumstances under which it is possible to discourage free-riding in a peer-to-peer system for resource-sharing by prioritizing resource allocation to peers wi...
Nazareno Andrade, Miranda Mowbray, Walfredo Cirne,...
Online mechanism design considers the problem of sequential decision making in a multi-agent system with self-interested agents. The agent population is dynamic and each agent has...
Effective fault-handling in emerging complex distributed applications requires the ability to dynamically adapt resource allocation and faulttolerance policies in response to poss...
Eltefaat Shokri, Herbert Hecht, Patrick Crane, Jer...
There are several situations where applications in the cloud need to self-manage their quality attributes (QA). We posit that selfadaptation can be achieved through a market-based ...
— Network dimensioning for wavelength-routed WDM networks has been extensively studied to maximize connection acceptance rate while minimizing the total cost. However, Internet s...