The single class best effort service available in the current Internet does not provide the guarantees, typically expressed in terms of minimum bandwidth and/or maximum delay or l...
Grid computing is emerging as a new infrastructure to provide collaborative and secure resource sharing over multiple geographically distributed organizations. In this scenario, r...
Tania Gomes Ramos, Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves d...
Many sophisticated mechanisms have been implemented at both the transport and the network layers in order to estimate network conditions and avoid overload of network links. We ev...
Ageliki Tsioliaridou, Christos V. Samaras, Vassili...
In this paper, we combine for the first time the methods of dynamic mechanism design with techniques from decentralized decision making under uncertainty. Consider a multi-agent s...
In this thesis, we describe a decentralized supply chain formation problem where the
supply chain planner or a central design authority (CDA) is faced with the decision
of choosi...