This paper takes the first steps towards designing incentive compatible mechanisms for hierarchical decision making problems involving selfish agents. We call these Stackelberg p...
The Replica Placement Problem (RPP) aims at creating a set of duplicated data objects across the nodes of a distributed system in order to optimize certain criteria. Typically, RP...
Thanasis Loukopoulos, Petros Lampsas, Ishfaq Ahmad
Group key exchange protocols allow a group of servers communicating over an asynchronous network of point-to-point links to establish a common key, such that an adversary which fu...
While application end-point architectures have proven to be viable solutions for large-scale distributed applications such as distributed computing and file-sharing, there is lit...
Kunwadee Sripanidkulchai, Aditya Ganjam, Bruce M. ...
Given a general graph G, a fundamental problem is to find a spanning tree H that best approximates G by some measure. Often this measure is some combination of the congestion and...