Abstract. In this paper, we analyze the problem of grid resource brokering in the presence of economic information about the price of resources. We examine in detail the main tasks...
Abstract. e-Procurement is an Internet-based business process for obtaining materials and services and managing their inflow into the organization. In this paper we develop multia...
Abstract. Complexity in software design refers to the difficulty in understanding and manipulating the set of concepts, models and techniques involved in the design process. Agents...
Abstract. Global computing applications co-ordinate distributed computations across widely-dispersed hosts. Such systems present formidable design and implementation challenges to ...
Linda Brodo, Pierpaolo Degano, Stephen Gilmore, Ja...
Abstract. An important class of soft real-time applications require dynamic allocation of computational resources in order to comply with their quality of service (QoS) requirement...