—When information or control in a multiagent system is private to the agents, they may misreport this information or refuse to execute an agreed outcome, in order to change the r...
Reusing syntax specifications without embedded arbitrary semantic actions is straightforward because the semantic analysis phases of new applications can feed off trees or other ...
As the size and popularity of computer clusters go on growing, fault tolerance is becoming a crucial factor to ensure high performance and reliability for applications. To provide...
Antonio S. Martins, Ronaldo Augusto Lara Gon&ccedi...
Traits support the factoring out of common behaviour, and its integration into classes in a manner that coexists smoothly with inheritance-based structuring mechanisms. We designed...
We present a mechanism for reservations of bursty resources that is both truthful and robust. It consists of option contracts whose pricing structure induces users to reveal the tr...