Cloud computing allows the use of Internet-based services to support business processes and rental of IT-services on a utility-like basis. It offers a concentration of resources bu...
Rohit Ranchal, Bharat K. Bhargava, Lotfi Ben Othma...
Inter-business collaborative contexts prefigure a distributed scenario where companies organize and coordinate themselves to develop common and shared opportunities. Traditional b...
Renewed motives for space exploration have inspired NASA to work toward the goal of establishing a virtual presence in space, through heterogeneous eets of robotic explorers. Info...
Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Barney Pell...
We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...
Agents with partial observability need to share information to achieve decentralised coordination. However, in resource-constrained systems, indiscriminate communication can creat...
Partha Sarathi Dutta, Claudia V. Goldman, Nicholas...