How soon will firms form alliances with a platform provider? What factors impact the decision and the speed with which firms first move into partnerships with a platform provider ...
As more people take part in online conversations, awareness of the varying conversational styles and social mores afforded by different software is growing. However, this awarenes...
We develop an adaptive load distribution protocol for logical volume I/O workload in clustered storage systems. It exploits data redundancy among decentralized storage servers to ...
Desktop grid (DG) systems use the idle computing power of many volunteered desktop PC’s on the Internet to support large-scale computation and storage. For over a decade, DG sys...
This paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) approach for modelling social behaviours in children’s play. The children, the dynamics of their play, and the playground are mo...