There are several situations where applications in the cloud need to self-manage their quality attributes (QA). We posit that selfadaptation can be achieved through a market-based ...
This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design competition. It presents a classification of the entries to the competition, and uses this classification to compare...
Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerdi...
We consider Internet broadband access as an elastic service whose value varies across segments of the user population. We show that introducing multiple tiers of service can be an ...
One of the challenges in large scale distributed computing is to utilize the thousands of idle personal computers. In this paper, we present a system that enables users to e ortles...
Agent-based computational economic modeling requires demanding work on computer programming. Usually, the publications as outcomes of running these programs do not provide readers ...