Abstract. Pricing arithmetic average options continues to intrigue researchers in the field of financial engineering. Since there is no analytical solution for this problem until...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
Managing trust is a key issue for a wide acceptance of P2P computing, particularly in critical areas such as e-commerce. Reputation-based trust management has been identified in t...
The Hardware (HW)/Software (SW) partitioning/scheduling relies on two subtasks : the cost function and the real time (RT) analysis. Besides these two subtasks, the proposed generi...
Security in wireless ad hoc networks is hard to achieve due to the vulnerability of its links, limited physical protection, and the absence of a centralized management point. Cons...