Establishing and maintaining cooperation is an enduring problem in multi-agent systems and, although several solutions exist, the increased use of online trading systems, peerto-p...
abstract over a complex set of resources and provide a high-level way to share and manage them over the network. To be effective, such a system must address the challenges posed by...
Andrew S. Grimshaw, Adam Ferrari, Frederick Knabe,...
Personal webservers have proven to be a popular means of sharing files and peer collaboration. Unfortunately, the transient availability and rapidly evolving content on such host...
Mayank Bawa, Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., Sridhar Rajag...
By federating resources from multiple domains, a shared infrastructure provides aggregated computation resources to a large number of users. With rapid advances in virtualization ...
Dongyan Xu, Paul Ruth, Junghwan Rhee, Rick Kennell...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly managing very large sets of data and hence a centralized data repository may not always provide the most scalable solution. H...