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ICNSC
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2008
IEEE
— A facility location problem deals with locating the best place for a group of facilities, among distinct demand points, minimizing a certain locational optimization function. I...
ESCIENCE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Data sources, storage, computing resources and services are entities on Grids that require mechanisms for publication and lookup. A discovery service relies on efficient lookup to...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
AINA
2009
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
2009
IEEE
The OSGi Alliance defines an open, modular, and scalable service delivery platform. The DPWS specification standardizes the process of consuming and exposing Web Services in a l...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2009
ACM
The literature on algorithmic mechanism design is mostly concerned with game-theoretic versions of optimization problems to which standard economic money-based mechanisms cannot b...