—Resource provisioning for N-tier web applications in Clouds is non-trivial due to at least two reasons. First, there is an inherent optimization conflict between cost of resour...
PengCheng Xiong, Zhikui Wang, Simon Malkowski, Qin...
We explore an alternative approach to spam based on economic rather than technological or regulatory screening mechanisms. We employ a model of email value which supports two intu...
Abstract. In distributed computer networks where resources are under decentralized control, selfish users will generally not work towards one common goal, such as maximizing the o...
Abstract—In this paper we explore the incentive and architectural issues that arise in Consortia of Peer-to-Peer Wireless Local Area Networks. A P2P WLAN Consortium (PWC) is a co...
Panayotis Antoniadis, Costas Courcoubetis, Elias C...
Computing optimal strategies to commit to in general normal-form or Bayesian games is a topic that has recently been gaining attention, in part due to the application of such algo...