In online, dynamic environments, the services requested by consumers may not be readily served by the providers. This requires the service consumers and providers to negotiate the...
Mitigating the devastating ramifications of major disasters requires emergency workers to respond in a maximally efficient way. Information systems can improve their efficiency by ...
Mobile systems operate in a resource-scarce environment and thus must adapt to external conditions; all layers must make cost-based decisions about what mode of operation to use i...
This paper argues that it is important to study issues concerning trust and reliance when developing systems that are intended to augment cognition. Operators often under-rely on t...
Peter-Paul van Maanen, Tomas Klos, Kees van Dongen
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,...