In recent years, the use of a computer has become a requirement for success in a collegiate environment, and the demand for mobile computing has sharply increased. In response to ...
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
— For a peer-to-peer (P2P) system holding massive amount of data, an efficient and scalable search for resource sharing is a key determinant to its practical usage. Unstructured...
Luca Gatani, Giuseppe Lo Re, Alfonso Urso, Salvato...
The Grid promise is starting to materialize today: largescale multi-site infrastructures have grown to assist the work of scientists from all around the world. This tremendous gro...
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of hetero...