This paper presents an auction system based on mobile agents. By using a proxy server, a user can generate a mobile auction agent by giving the bidding information, including the ...
We identify four types of errors that unsupervised induction systems make and study each one in turn. Our contributions include (1) using a meta-model to analyze the incorrect bia...
Motivated by applications such as the spread of epidemics and the propagation of influence in social networks, we propose a formal model for analyzing the dynamics of such networ...
Christopher L. Barrett, Harry B. Hunt III, Madhav ...
In this paper we demonstrate how tree-like processes can be used to analyze a general class of priority queues with three service classes, creating a new methodology to study prio...
Large-scale distributed systems are subject to churn, i.e., continuous arrival, departure and failure of processes. Analysis of protocols under churn requires one to use churn mod...