Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Increasing health care costs put a great strain on national economies. In recent years there have been several national and regional research and development projects in Finland a...
Yarra Valley Water, a corporatised water utility achieved the significant efficiencies that are promised from the move towards privatisation. At the same time it substantially imp...
In this paper we present FormSys, a Web-based system that service-enables form documents. It offers two main services: filling in forms based on Web services’ incoming SOAP me...
Ingo M. Weber, Hye-Young Paik, Boualem Benatallah,...
Imagine a future environment where networks of agents - people, robots and software agents - interact with sophisticated sensor grids and environmental actuators to provide advice,...