Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks continue to be popular means of trading content. However, very little protection is in place to make sure that the files exchanged in these networks a...
—Hybrid P2P systems rely on the assumption that sufficient objects exist nearby in order to make the unstructured search component efficient. This availability depends on the o...
Inter-business collaborative contexts prefigure a distributed scenario where companies organize and coordinate themselves to develop common and shared opportunities. Traditional b...
In large, collaborative, heterogeneous teams, team members often collect information that is useful to other members of the team. Recognizing the utility of such information and d...
Prasanna Velagapudi, Oleg A. Prokopyev, Katia P. S...
— In this paper we develop a new dual decomposition method for optimizing a sum of convex objective functions corresponding to multiple agents but with coupled constraints. In ou...