Many consumers are misled into paying high prices due to the search costs associated with attaining price information [16]. The popularity of bargain-hunting web sites like Slickd...
Interest-based negotiation (IBN) is a form of negotiation in which agents exchange information about their underlying goals, with a view to improving the likelihood and quality of ...
Iyad Rahwan, Philippe Pasquier, Liz Sonenberg, Fra...
Abstract. This paper formulates the job allocation problem in distributed systems with bandwidth-constrained nodes. The bandwidth limitations of the nodes play an important role in...
Abstract--This paper proposes client-centric fractional frequency reuse (CC-FFR) techniques for interference mitigation in OFDMA-based cellular wireless networks. In this framework...
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...