Data-centric business applications comprise an important class of distributed systems that includes on-line stores, document management systems, and patient portals. However, their...
We consider collusion in multi-unit auctions where the allocation and payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show how collusion can increase the utility of the collud...
— Inspired by the universal laws governing different kinds of complex networks, we propose a scale-free highlyclustered echo state network (SHESN). Different from echo state netw...
Computational Grids potentially offer cheap large-scale high-performance systems, but are a very challenging architecture, being heterogeneous, shared and hierarchical. Rather tha...
Abdallah Al Zain, Philip W. Trinder, Hans-Wolfgang...
—Researchers in robotics and artificial intelligence have often looked at biology as a source of inspiration for solving their problems. From the opposite perspective, neuroscie...