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PDP
2002
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A Jini Framework for Distributed Service Flexibility
Existing distributed middleware technologies and Enterprise Application frameworks lack in support to service flexibility from both the developer’s and user’s point of view. ...
Domenico Cotroneo, Cristiano di Flora, Stefano Rus...
FOCS
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Truthful and Near-Optimal Mechanism Design via Linear Programming
We give a general technique to obtain approximation mechanisms that are truthful in expectation. We show that for packing domains, any α-approximation algorithm that also bounds ...
Ron Lavi, Chaitanya Swamy
SASO
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Self-organizing Replica Placement - A Case Study on Emergence
The concept of self-organization is rapidly gaining importance in the area of distributed computing systems. However, we still lack the necessary means for engineering such system...
Klaus Herrmann
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Scalable mechanism design for the procurement of services with uncertain durations
In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...
DSE
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
The Voltan application programming environment for fail-silent processes
The Voltan software library for building distributed applications provides the support for (i) a processpair to act as single Voltan self-checking ‘fail-silent’ process; and (...
Dave Black, C. Low, Santosh K. Shrivastava