We introduce four measures for the change of coalitions in social networks. The first one measures the change of the agents in the network over time, The second one measures the ...
Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre, Serena Villa...
Queueing Theory deals with problems where some restricted resource should be shared between competitive flow of requests. In this paper we use Queueing Theory methods to perform a...
Moon Ho Lee, Aliaksandr Birukou, Alexander N. Dudi...
In this paper, we present the overall design for an auctioning based resource trading/acquiring system that can be deployed in wide-area computing systems such as Grid systems. Se...
Chunming Chen, Muthucumaru Maheswaran, Michel Toul...
The quality of database distribution design, which involves fragmentation and allocation, should be assessed by the performance of a system. In particular, this applies to non-rel...
Many large scale systems, like grids and structured peer to peer systems, operate on a constrained topology. Since underlying networks do not expose the real topology to the appli...