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GECON
2007
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Managing a Peer-to-Peer Backup System: Does Imposed Fairness Socially Outperform a Revenue-Driven Monopoly?
We study a peer-to-peer backup system, where users offer some of their storage space to provide service for the others. The economic model for such a system is different from the o...
László Toka, Patrick Maillé
CIA
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Iterative Query-Based Approach to Efficient Task Decomposition and Resource Allocation
Intelligent coordination in complex multi-agent environments requires sophisticated mechanisms for suboptimal task decomposition and efficient resource allocation provided by the t...
Michal Pechoucek, Ondrej Lerch, Jirí B&iacu...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Combining Job and Team Selection Heuristics
In open markets and within business and government organizations, selfish agents often face the question of what tasks to work on, and what partners to work with. Optimal solutions...
Chris L. D. Jones, K. Suzanne Barber
DAGSTUHL
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Weighted Voronoi Region Algorithms for Political Districting
Automated political districting shares with electronic voting the aim of preventing electoral manipulation and pursuing an impartial electoral mechanism. Political districting can...
Bruno Simeone, Federica Ricca, Andrea Scozzari
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
Windowing BitTorrent for Video-on-Demand: Not All is Lost with Tit-for-Tat
—In this paper we present findings from our windowing BitTorrent simulations and show that by carefully optimizing other factors a reasonable level of performance can be achieved...
Petri Savolainen, Niklas Raatikainen, Sasu Tarkoma