The usage of network resources by content providers is commonly governed by Service Level Agreements (SLA) between the content provider and the network service provider. Resource ...
This paper proposes CADRE (Collaborative Allocation and Deallocation of Replicas with Efficiency), which is a dynamic replication scheme for improving the typically low data avail...
Much experience has been gained with the protocols and mechanisms needed for discovery and allocation of remote computational resources. However, the preparation of a remote compu...
Privacy has been recognized as a very important issue in electronic commerce. However, many privacy techniques were not adopted and many online anonymity services failed. In this ...
We present a multi-dimensional, multi-step negotiation mechanism for task allocation among cooperative agents based on distributed search. This mechanism uses marginal utility gai...
Xiaoqin Zhang, Victor R. Lesser, Rodion M. Podoroz...