Numerical examples of a Braess-like paradox in which adding capacity to a distributed computer system may degrade the performance of all users in the system have been reported. Un...
— In this paper, we investigate the problem of grouping the sensor nodes into clusters to enhance the overall scalability of the network. A selected set of nodes, known as gatewa...
Mediators are third parties to whom the players in a game can delegate the task of choosing a strategy; a mediator forms a mediated equilibrium if delegating is a best response for...
Joshua R. Davis, David Liben-Nowell, Alexa Sharp, ...
HeteroSort load balances and sorts within static or dynamic networks. Upon failure of a node or path, HeteroSort uses a genetic algorithm to minimize the distribution path by optim...
Emmett Davis, Bonnie Holte Bennett, Bill Wren, Lin...
Computational Grids are large scale computing system composed of geographically distributed resources (computers, storage etc.) owned by self interested agents or organizations. T...