Distributed peer-to-peer systems rely on voluntary participation of peers to effectively manage a storage pool. In such systems, data is generally replicated for performance and a...
Ronaldo A. Ferreira, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, An...
Year after year, the frequency of updated releases of software continues to increase. Without an automated install process, the result is either that a system installs software wi...
In practice, managers often wish to ascertain that a particular engineering design of a production system meets their requirements. The future environment of this design is likely...
This paper deals with privacy-preserving (pseudonymized) access to a service resource. In such a scenario, two opposite needs seem to emerge. On one side, the service provider may...
Giuseppe Bianchi, M. Bonola, Vincenzo Falletta, Fr...
In this paper, we introduce the combinatorial auction model for resource management in grids. We propose a combinatorial auction-based resource allocation protocol in which a user...