On building a service-oriented architecture for Grid systems, more and more researches have been focused on service composition. Services, however, are not always exactly compatib...
Print media are still very important for everyone's daily life. Current efforts are concerned with the application of the wellestablished offset-printing technology to other ...
In this paper, we derive models of the selection pressure in XCS for proportionate (roulette wheel) selection and tournament selection. We show that these models can explain the e...
Albert Orriols-Puig, Kumara Sastry, Pier Luca Lanz...
This paper proposes a novel auction-based mechanisms named Decreasing Cancellation Fee Auction (DCFA) for task allocation in the environment where a service provider has finite ca...
To come to a deal, a bargaining process can sometimes take a long time. An auction may be a faster, but existing auction models cannot cope with situations where money is not an is...