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2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Kestrel: an XMPP-based framework for many task computing applications
This paper presents a new distributed computing framework for Many Task Computing (MTC) applications, based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). A lightweight...
Lance Stout, Michael A. Murphy, Sebastien Goasguen
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Team competition
In a team competition, two participating teams have an equal number of players, and each team orders its players linearly based on their strengths. A mechanism then specifies how...
Pingzhong Tang, Yoav Shoham, Fangzhen Lin
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
92views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2005»
15 years 5 months ago
True costs of cheap labor are hard to measure: edge deletion and VCG payments in graphs
We address the problem of lowering the buyer’s expected payments in shortest path auctions, where the buyer’s goal is to purchase a path in a graph in which edges are owned by...
Edith Elkind
SIGECOM
2003
ACM
110views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2003»
15 years 5 months ago
Virtual worlds: fast and strategyproof auctions for dynamic resource allocation
We consider the problem of designing fast and strategyproof exchanges for dynamic resource allocation problems in distributed systems. The exchange is implemented as a sequence of...
Chaki Ng, David C. Parkes, Margo I. Seltzer
CLUSTER
2002
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
PHOENIX: A Self Adaptable Monitoring Platform for Cluster Management
Distributed systems based on cluster of workstation are more and more difficult to manage due to the increasing number of processors involved, and the complexity of associated appl...
Céline Boutrous-Saab, Xavier Bonnaire, Bert...