Abstract Charging schemes are needed to protect an integrated services network from arbitrary resource reservations and to create a funding mechanism to extend network capacity at ...
Martin Karsten, Jens Schmitt, Lars C. Wolf, Ralf S...
Co-ordination is the glue that binds the activities of autonomous problem-solving agents together into a functional whole. Co-ordination mechanisms for distributed problem-solving ...
Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
An important problem in search engine advertising is keyword1 generation. In the past, advertisers have preferred to bid for keywords that tend to have high search volumes and hen...
Peer production has played an important role in the economics of Web 2.0 related services. User participation and contribution become the main driving dynamics of this new economi...