Several powerful forces are gathering to make fundamental and irrevocable changes to the century-old grid. The nextgeneration grid, often called the `smart grid,' will featur...
Recently, mashups have emerged as an important class of Web 2.0 collaborative applications. Mashups can be conceived as personalized Web services which aggregate and manipulate dat...
Osama Al-Haj Hassan, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, John A. ...
Most real-world negotiation scenarios involve multiple, interdependent issues. These scenarios are specially challenging because the agents' utility functions are nonlinear, ...
: Most of the Web traffic today uses the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as the underlying transport protocol. TCP provides several...
Israel Cidon, Raphael Rom, Amit Gupta, Christoph L...
In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...