This paper presents a novel strategy improvement algorithm for parity and payoff games, which is guaranteed to select, in each improvement step, an optimal combination of local str...
Optical Burst Switching (OBS) has been proposed as a costeffective paradigm for supporting, with adequate flexibility, the increasingly high transmission capacity required by the ...
Nowadays, large distributed databases are commonplace. Client applications increasingly rely on accessing objects from multiple remote hosts. The Internet itself is a huge network ...
Nash equilibria and dominant strategies are two of the major approaches to deal with selfishness in an automated system (AS), where each agent is a selfish entity. In this paper,...
Inter domain service routing is an element in the success of Next Generation Network. Service requests, such as the INVITE request in Session Initiation Protocol [21] may need to ...