We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...
Abstract Deciding which computer architecture provides the best performance for a certain program is an important problem in hardware design and benchmarking. While previous approa...
Despite many years of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) middleware research, deployment of such systems has not been widespread. We suggest this is in part because we lack a shared mo...
As computing moves into every aspect of our daily lives, the process, values and assumptions that underlie our technical practices may unwittingly be propagated throughout our cul...
Abstract: We present two probabilistic leader election algorithms for anonymous unidirectional rings with FIFO channels, based on an algorithm from Itai and Rodeh [Itai and Rodeh 1...