This paper develops a new combinatorial auction protocol called the Groves Mechanism with SubModular Approximation (GM-SMA). This protocol satisfies the following characteristics:...
The role of ontologies in knowledge base systems is gradually increasing. Along with the growth of Internet based applications and ecommerce, the need for easy interoperability bet...
Multi-File Caching issues arise in applications where a set of jobs are processed and each job requests one or more input files. A given job can only be started if all its input fi...
In this paper we examine the dissemination of availability reports about resources in mobile peer-topeer networks, where vehicles, pedestrian or sensors communicate with each othe...
This paper addresses the prediction of timing properties of a component-based application already during the composition phase. At this stage, it is of vital importance to guarant...
Egor Bondarev, Peter H. N. de With, Michel R. V. C...