Leasing computational resources for on-demand computing is now a viable option for providers of network services. Temporary spikes or lulls in demand for a service can be accommod...
Abstract—In cognitive mobile multihop relay (CMMR) network, the mobile user as the primary user is allocated with the channel for transmitting data. Relay station as the secondar...
Meta-level control manages the allocation of limited resources to deliberative actions. This paper discusses efforts in adding meta-level control capabilities to a Markov Decision...
—This paper studies the problem of allocating network capacity through periodic auctions. Motivated primarily by a service overlay architecture, we impose the following condition...
Mediation is the process of decomposing a task into subtasks, finding agents suitable for these subtasks and negotiating with agents to obtain commitments to execute these subtas...