This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
We consider the problem of coordination and control of large heterogeneous groups of agents distributed over the Internet in the context of Law-Governed Interaction (LGI) [2, 5]. L...
Xuhui Ao, Naftaly H. Minsky, Thu D. Nguyen, Victor...
Abstract. The paper presents an approach towards executing transactions between enterprises, governmental bodies and banking institutions, based on ERP applications connected over ...
Energy consumption in hosting Internet services is becoming a pressing issue as these services scale up. Dynamic server provisioning techniques are effective in turning off unnece...
Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas...
Disasters can cause extraordinary service demand by the public, while concurrently causing outages that reduce network capacity to serve the surging demand. It is imperative that ...
David A. Garbin, Patrick V. McGregor, Denise M. Be...