This paper proposes a novel auction-based mechanisms named Decreasing Cancellation Fee Auction (DCFA) for task allocation in the environment where a service provider has finite ca...
Abstract. A dramatic increase of event monitoring capabilities by wireless sensors requires new, more sophisticated, event correlation over time and space. This new paradigm implie...
The content-based publish/subscribe model has been adopted by many services to deliver data between distributed users based on application-specific semantics. Two key issues in su...
Chi Zhang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang,...
Abstract. A metacomputing environment is a collection of geographically distributed resources (people, computers, devices, databases) connected by one or more high-speed networks, ...
Adam Ferrari, Frederick Knabe, Marty Humphrey, Ste...
Wide-area networks provide an easy access to many different distributed and heterogeneous data sources. The development of automated operating tools is still complex, particularly...
Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Sebastien Leriche, Marc Pante...