— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
Abstract— An important application of wireless sensor networks is to perform the monitoring missions, for example, to monitor some targets of interests at all times. Sensors are ...
Bang Wang, Kee Chaing Chua, Vikram Srinivasan, Wei...
Distributed real-time systems require a predictable and verifiable mechanism to control the communication medium. Current real-time communication protocols are typically independe...
Abstract One of the goals envisioned by Grid computing is to make the execution of both computational and data-intensive problems possible. A key problem is finding the optimal set...
Marc De Leenheer, Pieter Thysebaert, Bruno Volckae...
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems (MAS). Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) involves partitioning a set of agents into coa...