Abstract. The emergence of large-scale online collaboration requires current information systems to be apprehended as service ensembles comprising human and software service entiti...
Web search engines are composed of a large set of search nodes and a broker machine that feeds them with queries. A location cache keeps minimal information in the broker to regist...
In itself, the continuous exponential increase of the data-warehouses size does not necessarily lead to a richer and finer-grained information since the processing capabilities d...
Abstract—Two major forms of information integration, federation and materialization, continue to dominate the market, embedded in separate products, each with their strengths and...
This work considers coordination and bargaining between two selfish users over a Gaussian interference channel using game theory. The usual information theoretic approach assumes f...