Combinatorial Auctions (CAs), where users bid on combination of items, have emerged as a useful tool for resource allocation in distributed systems. However, two main difficulties...
The diversity and large volumes of data processed in the Natural Sciences today has led to a proliferation of highlyspecialized and autonomous scientific databases with inherent a...
Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Frank Neven, Dieter Va...
Moving to smaller libraries can be considered as a relevant task when porting software systems to limited-resource devices (e.g., hand-helds). Library miniaturization will be part...
— “Word-of-Mouth”, a novel scheme for sharing the service quality experienced with different local networks, is presented and evaluated as a distributed solution for performi...
Production grids are complex and highly variable systems whose behavior is not well understood and difficult to anticipate. The goal of this study is to estimate the impact of the ...