Probability features increasingly often in software and hardware systems: it is used in distributed co-ordination and routing problems, to model fault-tolerance and performance, a...
Abstract. Bounded fairness is a stronger notion than ordinary eventuality-based fairness, one that guarantees occurrence of an event within a fixed number of occurrences of anothe...
Nachum Dershowitz, D. N. Jayasimha, Seungjoon Park
Mechanism design is the art of designing the rules of the game (aka. mechanism) so that a desirable outcome (according to a given objective) is reached despite the fact that each a...
Auctions have become popular in conducting trade negotiations on the Internet. The design of new auction formats and other negotiation protocols has become an important topic for r...
The Java Message Service (JMS) provides a standard asynchronous messaging API, which simplifies the construction of loosely coupled, distributed applications. This paper describes ...
Einar Vollset, David B. Ingham, Paul D. Ezhilchelv...