Grid computing is about allocating distributed collections of resources including computers, storage systems, networks and instruments to form a coherent system devoted to a “vir...
Dennis Gannon, Beth Plale, Marcus Christie, Liang ...
Auctions are useful mechanisms for allocating items (goods, tasks, resources, etc.) in multiagent systems. The bulk of auction theory assumes that the bidders know their own valua...
In this paper we discuss the dynamic network characteristics of mobile ad hoc networks, and explore problems that arise when attempting to provide QoS support in this environment....
Application development for distributed-computing ``Grids'' can benefit from tools that variously hide or enable application-level management of critical aspects of the ...
Nicholas T. Karonis, Brian R. Toonen, Ian T. Foste...
Our main motivation is to build general and adaptable linguistic tools and we have faced the problem of their portability. We first make a quick description of the linguistic tool...