20 search results - page 4 / 4 » On the expected payment of mechanisms for task allocation |
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2006
Springer
Distributing scarce resources among agents in a way that maximizes the social welfare of the group is a computationally hard problem when the value of a resource bundle is not lin...
SIGECOM
2009
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2009
ACM
Restricting the preferences of the agents by assuming that their utility functions linearly depend on a payment allows for the positive results of the Vickrey auction and the Vick...
IUI
2003
ACM
14 years 7 days ago
2003
ACM
How do we know if we can afford a particular purchase? We can find out what the payments might be and check our balances on various accounts, but does this answer the question? Wh...
IM
2003
13 years 8 months ago
2003
: We present an architecture and prototype implementation of a performance management system for cluster-based web services. The system supports multiple classes of web services tr...
ECRA
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Meeting client Quality-of-Service (QoS) expectations proves to be a difficult task for the providers of e-Commerce services, especially when web servers experience overload condit...