Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
While many public cloud providers offer pay-as-you-go computing, their varying approaches to infrastructure, virtualization, and software services lead to a problem of plenty. To ...
Ang Li, Xiaowei Yang, Srikanth Kandula, Ming Zhang
RDF-based P2P networks have a number of advantages compared with simpler P2P networks such as Napster, Gnutella or with approaches based on distributed indices such as CAN and CHO...
—In order to protect privacy, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems employ Privacy-Preserving Authentication (PPA) to allow valid readers to explicitly authenticate their...
Hard disks contain data—frequently an irreplaceable asset of high monetary and non-monetary value. At the same time, hard disks are mechanical devices that consume power, are no...