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NSDI
2004
14 years 26 days ago
Contract-Based Load Management in Federated Distributed Systems
This paper focuses on load management in looselycoupled federated distributed systems. We present a distributed mechanism for moving load between autonomous participants using bil...
Magdalena Balazinska, Hari Balakrishnan, Michael S...
EUMAS
2006
14 years 27 days ago
Friends No More: Ostracism in Multi-Agent Systems
In a normative society there are two main problems: defining norms and enforcing them. Enforcement becomes a complex issue as societies become more decentralized and open. We propo...
Adrian Perreau de Pinninck, Carles Sierra, W. Marc...
ISPAN
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Distributed Algorithmic Mechanism Design for Scheduling on Unrelated Machines
In classical mechanism design setting the outcome of the mechanism is computed by a trusted central party. In this paper we consider distributed implementations in which the outco...
Thomas E. Carroll, Daniel Grosu