Abstract. Recently, researchers have explored to provide a queue management scheme with differentiated loss guarantees for the future Internet. The Bounded Random Drop (BRD), known...
In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...
For successful coordination and cooperation in a multiagent system, participants need to establish a sufficiently accurate awareness of the current situation. Awareness is underst...
We model social choice problems in which self interested agents with private utility functions have to agree on values for a set of variables subject to side constraints. The goal...
Large-scale database integration requires a significant cost in developing a global schema and finding mappings between the global and local schemas. Developing the global schema r...