Constraint satisfaction has been applied with great success in closed-world scenarios, where all options and constraints are known from the beginning and fixed. With the internet,...
Abstract. Rapidly changing business requirements necessitate the adhoc composition of expert teams to handle complex business cases. Expertcentric properties such as skills, howeve...
Abstract—The future Internet is expected to support applications with quality of service (QoS) requirements. For this end several mechanisms are suggested in the IETF to support ...
—Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems gain much attention in recent years. According to many statistics, P2P systems contribute a significant portion of the Internet traffic. Individual In...
We study how protocol design for various functionalities within a communication network architecture can be viewed as a distributed resource allocation problem. This involves unde...