—One key adaptation mechanism often deployed in networking and computing systems is dynamic load balancing. The goal from employing dynamic load balancers is to ensure that the o...
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Yuti...
Increasingly, distributed systems are being constructed by composing a number of discrete components. This practice, termed composition, is particularly prevalent within the Web s...
Non Disclosure Agreements(NDAs) in real life are typically used whenever there is transfer of private or confidential information from one organization to another. The provider o...
Vikram Goyal, Shyam K. Gupta, Indira Meshram, Anan...
As microprocessors become increasingly interconnected, the power consumed by the interconnection network can no longer be ignored. Moreover, with demand for link bandwidth increas...
In this paper, we argue that allowing self-interested agents to activate social institutions during run-time can improve the robustness (i.e., stability, cooperation or fairness) ...