The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is used extensively in ubiquitous computing environments. Using external service orchestration, services can be composed into applications....
Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
Grid computing supports workload execution on computing resources that are shared across a set of collaborative organizations. At the core of workload management for Grid computin...
Subtle implementation errors or mis-configurations in complex Internet services may lead to performance degradations without causing failures. These undiscovered performance anomal...
Christopher Stewart, Kai Shen, Arun Iyengar, Jian ...