We study the problem of hiring a team of selfish agents to perform a task. Each agent is assumed to own one or more elements of a set system, and the auctioneer is trying to purch...
Atsushi Iwasaki, David Kempe, Yasumasa Saito, Mahy...
Web Services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic businesses. This makes natural the extension of the concepts at the base of the workflow ...
Francesco Calabrese, Giovanni Di Dio, Anna Rita Fa...
In this paper, we present a methodology for designing a pipeline of accelerators for an application. The application is modeled using sequential C language with simple stylization...
E-commerce, and online auctions in particular, represent important examples of how information and communication technologies have been employed by public organizations to gain be...
Object-oriented legacy systems are hard to maintain because they are hard to understand. One of the main understanding problems is revealed by the so-called ”yo-yo effect” tha...