This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
This paper identifies five distinct mechanisms by which a population-based algorithm might have an advantage over a solo-search algorithm in classical optimization. These mechanism...
In access-control systems, policy rules conflict when they prescribe different decisions (ALLOW or DENY) for the same access. We present the results of a user study that demonstr...
Robert W. Reeder, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor,...
Background: Biological networks offer us a new way to investigate the interactions among different components and address the biological system as a whole. In this paper, a revers...
Dong-Chul Kim, Xiaoyu Wang, Chin-Rang Yang, Jean G...
Given a large group of cooperative agents, selecting the right coordination or conflict resolution strategy can have a significant impact on their performance (e.g., speed of co...