We introduce the following consensus estimate problem. Several processors hold private and possibly different lower bounds on a value. The processors do not communicate with each ...
Abstract - Among other proposals to reform the German outpatient health care system the establishment of networks of cooperating physicians (doctors' networks) has found high ...
—Ad hoc networking will become a major technology for wireless connectivity beside the multimedia necessity within the next few years. There are too many applications where one-t...
We consider collusion in multi-unit auctions where the allocation and payments are determined using the VCG mechanism. We show how collusion can increase the utility of the collud...
A full exploitation of the computational power available in a multi-core platform requires the software to be specified in terms of parallel execution flows. At the same time, mode...