We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on “static” web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...
One prediction about this future of pervasive technology is that people will carry the tools needed to interface with technological resources sprinkled through out the environment...
Abstract— Target shape design optimization problem (TSDOP) is a miniature model for real world design optimization problems. It is proposed as a test bed to design and analyze op...
Pan Zhang, Xin Yao, Lei Jia, Bernhard Sendhoff, Th...
Learning by human tutelage means that a human being guides the attention of a robot or agent in order to teach it a given concept. This kind of learning is very important to devel...
Claudio A. Policastro, Roseli A. F. Romero, Giovan...