Abstract— Cycle-harvesting software on commodity computers is available from a number of companies and a significant part of the Grid computing landscape. However, creating comm...
Abstract—Plugin-based application design has become increasingly popular in recent years, and has contributed to the success of a range of very different applications including ...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
By QoS (Quality of Service), we often refer to a set of quality requirements on the collective behavior of one or more objects. These requirements enable the provision of better se...