: Conflict is a dynamic and complex form of human interaction, often emerging from incompatible actions, values and goals, and consuming a considerable amount of resources. Conflic...
Utility services providers offer on-demand services for multiple users and applications from a shared resource pool. The utility computing environment provider manages resources th...
Progressive processing plans allow systems to tradeoff computational resources against the quality of service by specifying alternative ways in which to accomplish each step. When ...
Shlomo Zilberstein, Abdel-Illah Mouaddib, Andrew A...
The GEMSS project has developed a service-oriented Grid that supports the provision of medical simulation services by service providers to clients such as hospitals. We outline the...
Stuart E. Middleton, Mike Surridge, Siegfried Benk...
The distributed nature of peer-to-peer networks offers a solid ground for the deployment of environments where multiple agents, managing several resources, can cooperate in pursuin...