Algorithms and mechanisms for procuring services with uncertain durations using redundancy

In emerging service-oriented systems, such as computational clouds or grids, software agents are able to automatically procure distributed services to complete computational tasks. However, service execution times are often highly uncertain and service providers may have incentives to lie strategica...

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Main Authors: Stein, Sebastian (Author), Gerding, Enrico (Author), Rogers, Alex (Author), Larson, Kate (Author), Jennings, Nick (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2011-09.
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