SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
A formal device is said to be adaptive whenever its behavior changes dynamically, in a direct response to its input stimuli, without interference of external agents, even its user...
A recurring problem in data centres is that the constantly changing workload is not proportionally distributed over the available servers. Some resources may lay idle while others ...
Roman van der Krogt, Jacob Feldman, James Little, ...
Pervasive computing allows data to be collected using sensors and mobile devices. Recent studies, however, show that in emergency and crisis situations conventional access control ...
In this paper we consider the following scenario. A set of n jobs with different threads is being run concurrently. Each job has an associated weight, which gives the proportion ...
Micah Adler, Petra Berenbrink, Tom Friedetzky, Les...