Internet servers need to be highly-available, inexpensive, and scalable. These goals are often con icting and most designs meet, with limited success, only few of them. In this pa...
In this paper, we discuss two major tradeoffs, spatial and temporal tradeoffs, that appear when applying marketbased computing to multimedia network applications. The former appea...
Withthe proliferationof software agents and smart hardware devices there is a growing realization that large-scale problems can be addressed by integration of such standalone syst...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts--i.e., contracts where each party ca...
Cross-organizational workflow management is an essential ingredient for process integration in virtual enterprises. To obtain cross-organizational workflow processes with robust s...