This paper argues that the network latency due to synchronous replication is no longer tolerable in scenarios where businesses are required by regulation to separate their seconda...
Xiaotao Liu, Gal Niv, Prashant J. Shenoy, K. K. Ra...
Continuing strides in processing, storage, sensing, and networking technologies are enabling people to capture their activities and experiences as greater volumes of ever-richer m...
In this paper, a generic optimization problem arising in supply chain design is modeled in a game theoretic framework and solved as a decentralized problem using a mechanism desig...
Major computer companies and government agencies are adopting Web Services (WS) technology. Web services must ensure interoperability and security, and be reliable and trustworthy...
This paper synthesizes two trends in the engineering of agent-based systems. One, modern agent-oriented methodologies deal with the key aspects of software development including re...