In this paper we study the set cover games when the elements are selfish agents. In this case, each element has a privately known valuation of receiving the service from the sets,...
In this article we propose the concept of relevance criteria profiles, which provide a global view of user behaviour in judging the relevance of retrieved information. We further p...
—Current-generation cloud computing is offered with usage-based pricing, with no bandwidth capacity guarantees, which is however unappealing to bandwidth-intensive applications s...
Network-based real-time multimedia applications require guaranteed performance communicationservices. To provide guaranteed service, resources have to be reserved within the netwo...
We investigate the preservation of quality of service guarantees to a flow of packets in the presence of flow aggregation. For efficiency, multiple flows, known as the constituent...