Optimizing the performance of dynamic load balancing toolkits and applications requires the adjustment of several runtime parameters; however, determining sufficiently good value...
This paper studies adaptive bilateral negotiation between software agents in e-commerce environments. Specifically, we assume that the agents are self-interested, the environment...
The use of software diversity has often been discussed in the research literature as an effective means to break up the software monoculture present on the Internet and to thus p...
A key limitation of current Web services standards is the inability to differentiate service instances at runtime using (nonfunctional) qualities of services (QoS). Such differe...
An analysis for the phase transition in a random NK landscape model is given. For the fixed ratio model, NK(n, k, z), Gao and Culberson [17] showed that a random instance generat...