This paper presents approaches for building, managing, and evaluating consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent h...
This paper presents a new coverage formulation addressing the quality of service of sensor networks that cooperatively detect targets traversing a region of interest. The problem o...
The relative worst order ratio, a new measure for the quality of on-line algorithms, was recently defined and applied to two bin packing problems. Here, we extend the definition ...
Economic principles are increasingly being suggested for addressing some complex issues related to distributed resource allocation for QoS (Quality of Service) enhancement. Many p...
—Recently, there has been a proliferation of service-based systems, i.e. software systems that are composed of autonomous services, but can also use software code. In order to su...