We study the problem of agents attempting to find quality service providers in a distributed environment. While referrals from other agents can be used to locate high-quality prov...
Abstract—A probabilistic analytical framework for decentralized load balancing (LB) strategies for heterogeneous distributed-computing systems (DCSs) is presented with the overal...
Abstract- Switched Processing Systems (SPS) represent a canonical model for many areas of applications of communication, computer and manufacturing systems. They are characterized ...
The paper addresses a novel method for realtime analysis of systems with cyclic data flows. The presented method is based on Network Calculus principles, where upper and lower flo...
In ubiquitous computing, invisible devices and software are connected to one another to provide convenient services to users [1][2]. Users hope to obtain a personalized service wh...