As a user attention has become a precious resource, a special care has to be taken to reduce the time needed for answering queries in P2P networks. Existing solutions are usually ...
Abstract. Cloud computing is receiving increasingly attention as it provides infinite resource capacity and "pay-as-you-go" resource usage pattern to hosted applications....
— Warehouse operation has become a critical activity in supply chain to outperform competitors on customer service, lead times and costs. However, managers often meet difficulti...
Abstract. A central issue in autonomic management is how to coordinate several autonomic management processes, which is assumed to require significant knowledge exchange. This stu...
In this paper we explore some of the connections between cooperative game theory and the utility maximization framework for routing and flow control in networks. Central to both a...