Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Answer set programming (ASP for short) is a declarative problem solving framework that has been recently attracting the attention of researchers for its expressiveness and for its...
Sabrina Baselice, Piero A. Bonatti, Michael Gelfon...
A key element for outsourcing critical parts of a business process in Service Oriented Architectures are Service Level Agreements (SLAs). They build the key element to move from so...
Finite domain propagation solving, the basis of constraint programming (CP) solvers, allows building very high-level models of problems, and using highly specific inference encapsu...
Interactive systems including multiple interaction devices and surfaces for supporting the collaboration of a group of co-located users are increasingly common in various domains. ...