The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism ...
Porting large applications to distributed computing platforms is a challenging task from a software engineering perspective. The Computational Grid has gained tremendous popularit...
Gene Cooperman, Henri Casanova, Jim Hayes, Thomas ...
The Private Network-to-Network Interface (PNNI) is a scalable hierarchical protocol that allows ATM switches to be aggregated into clusters called peer groups. To provide good acc...
Markets for electronic goods provide the possibility of exploring new and more complex pricing schemes, due to the flexibility of information goods and negligible marginal cost. I...
Christopher H. Brooks, Scott A. Fay, Rajarshi Das,...
Scientific experiments produce large volumes of data represented as complex objects that describe independent events such as particle collisions. Scientific analyses can be express...