The email communication system is threatened by unsolicited commercial email aka spam. In response, spam filters have been deployed widely to help reduce the amount of spam users ...
We consider cluster systems with multiple nodes where each server is prone to run tasks at a degraded level of service due to some software or hardware fault. The cluster serves t...
There are now a large number of repositories in the world, contributing a significant amount of content to the world's scholars and scientists. The landscape has changed sinc...
In high-end grid networks, distributed resources (scientific instruments, CPUs, storages, etc.) are interconnected to support computing-intensive and data-intensive applications, w...
Recently, multi-attribute negotiation has been extensively studied from a game-theoretic viewpoint. Since normal and extensive form games have the drawback of requiring an explicit...