This paper describes an online control framework to design self-managing distributed computing systems that continually optimize their performance in response to changing computin...
Abstract— Today’s embedded systems are typically distributed and more often confronted with timevarying demands. Existing methodologies that optimize the partitioning of comput...
The multi-period newsvendor problem describes the dilemma of a newspaper salesman--how many paper should he purchase each day to resell, when he doesn't know the demand? We d...
In an ad-hoc Grid environment where producers and consumers compete for providing and employing resources, trade handling in a fair and stable way is a challenging task. Dynamic ch...
Behnaz Pourebrahimi, S. Arash Ostadzadeh, Koen Ber...
We introduce the concept of a trust network—a decentralized payment infrastructure in which payments are routed as IOUs between trusted entities. The trust network has directed ...
Arpita Ghosh, Mohammad Mahdian, Daniel M. Reeves, ...