Advertising has become an integral and inseparable part of the World Wide Web. However, neither public auditing nor monitoring mechanisms still exist in this emerging area. In thi...
Yong Wang, Daniel Burgener, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic,...
In this paper we construct an evaluation framework for a self-healing system, VM-Rejuv – a virtual machine based rejuvenation scheme for web-application servers – using simple...
Rean Griffith, Gail E. Kaiser, Javier Alonso L&oac...
Context awareness has emerged as an important element in distributed computing. It offers mechanisms that allow applications to be aware of their environment and enable these appl...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Remco Poortinga...
We consider the problem of designing fast and strategyproof exchanges for dynamic resource allocation problems in distributed systems. The exchange is implemented as a sequence of...
Interactions between agents in an open system such as the Internet require a significant degree of flexibility. A crucial aspect of the development of such methods is the notion o...