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MAGS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
MOBICOM
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
PAVAN: a policy framework for content availabilty in vehicular ad-hoc networks
Advances in wireless communication, storage and processing are realizing next-generation in-vehicle entertainment systems. Even if hundreds of different video or audio titles are...
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Shyam Kapadia, Bhaskar Kr...
JPDC
2008
122views more  JPDC 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Stochastic robustness metric and its use for static resource allocations
This research investigates the problem of robust static resource allocation for distributed computing systems operating under imposed Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Often, ...
Vladimir Shestak, Jay Smith, Anthony A. Maciejewsk...
ACNS
2003
Springer
168views Cryptology» more  ACNS 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
PLI: A New Framework to Protect Digital Content for P2P Networks
In this paper, we first propose a novel Public License Infrastructure (PLI) that uses cryptographic threshold secret sharing schemes to provide decentralized public license service...
Guofei Gu, Bin B. Zhu, Shipeng Li, Shiyong Zhang
ACMICEC
2007
ACM
201views ECommerce» more  ACMICEC 2007»
13 years 12 months ago
Bid based scheduler with backfilling for a multiprocessor system
We consider a virtual computing environment that provides computational resources on demand to users with multiattribute task descriptions that include a valuation, resource (CPU)...
Inbal Yahav, Louiqa Raschid, Henrique Andrade