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ATAL
2003
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
On optimal outcomes of negotiations over resources
We analyse scenarios in which self-interested agents negotiate with each other in order to agree on deals to exchange resources. We consider two variants of the framework, one whe...
Ulrich Endriss, Nicolas Maudet, Fariba Sadri, Fran...
SAFECOMP
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Assessment of the Reliability of Fault-Tolerant Software: A Bayesian Approach
Fault tolerant systems based on the use of software design diversity may be able to achieve high levels of reliability more cost-effectively than other approaches, such as heroic ...
Bev Littlewood, Peter T. Popov, Lorenzo Strigini
CDC
2010
IEEE
173views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Corrective consensus: Converging to the exact average
Consensus algorithms provide an elegant distributed way for computing the average of a set of measurements across a sensor network. However, the convergence of the node estimates t...
Yin Chen, Roberto Tron, Andreas Terzis, René...
HPCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Nonlinear Simulation of Thermo-viscous Fingering in Miscible Displacements in Porous Media
The nonlinear simulation of interfacial instabilities in miscible displacements in porous media often requires sophisticated numerical algorithms as well as very fine spatial and ...
M. N. Islam, B. B. Maini, J. Azaiez
SAC
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Adaptive internet services through performance and availability control
Cluster-based multi-tier systems provide a means for building scalable Internet services. Building adaptive Internet services that are able to apply appropriate system sizing and ...
Jean Arnaud, Sara Bouchenak