Application-layer networks (ALN) are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual ...
Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pa...
A standard assumption in studies of multiagent resource allocation problems is that the value an individual agent places on its assignment remains unchanged by any redistribution ...
Fairness is an inherent and fundamental factor of queue service disciplines in a large variety of queueing applications, ranging from airport and supermarket waiting lines to comp...
In established communication systems prices are determined in a quasi-static way and for a large area according to a fixed price model. Additionally, the main decision criteria of ...
Grid computing systems pool together the resources of many workstations to create a virtual computing reservoir. Users can "draw" resources using a pay-as-you-go model, c...