Several companies offer computation on demand for a fee. More companies are expected to enter this business over the next decade, leading to a marketplace for computation resource...
This poster paper presents a work in progress in the new emerging area of electronic services (e-services). The networked home with refrigerators and washing machines connected to...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
—Enhanced network services often involve allocating resources (bandwidth/buffer space) preferentially to packets belonging to certain flows or traffic classes. Such services ar...
Kenneth L. Calvert, Srinivasan Venkatraman, Jim Gr...
The natural or man-made disaster demands an efficient communication and coordination among first responders to save life and other community resources. Normally, the traditional c...