Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Background: Gene expression patterns of olfactory receptors (ORs) are an important component of the signal encoding mechanism in the olfactory system since they determine the inte...
Abstract. Database systems (DBSs) can play an essential role in facilitating the query and cache management in context-aware mobile information systems (CAMIS). Two of the fundamen...
— Information Systems are subject to a perpetual evolution, which is particularly pressing in Web Information Systems, due to their distributed and often collaborative nature. Su...
Carlo Curino, Hyun J. Moon, MyungWon Ham, Carlo Za...
— We are currently witnessing an increasing interest in the use of the web as an information and knowledge source. Much of the information sought after in the web is in this case...
Heiko Stoermer, Themis Palpanas, George Giannakopo...