the extensibility and evolution of network services and protocols had become a major research issue in recent years. The 'programmable' and 'active' network par...
Recently overlay networks have emerged as an efficient and flexible method for content distribution. An overlay network is a network running on top of another network, usually the ...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
In this paper, we investigate the employment of evolutionary algorithms as a search mechanism in a decision support system for designing chemotherapy schedules. Chemotherapy invol...
We develop approximation algorithms for the problem of placing replicated data in arbitrary networks, where the nodes may both issue requests for data objects and have capacity fo...