(MMOGs) can include millions of concurrent players spread across the world and interacting with each other within a single session. Faced with high resource demand variability and with misfit resource renting policies, the current industry practice is to over-provision for each game tens of self

, and negotiation self-efficacy. All individual difference keywords were paired with the terms ''negotiation,'' ''bargaining,'' ''prisoner's dilemma,'' and ''social dilemma.'' 2. The reference sections of usable articles found

Abstract. We give a new proof of regularity of biharmonic maps from four-dimensional domains into spheres, showing first that the biharmonic map system is equivalent to a set of bilinear identities in divergence form. The method of reverse Hölder inequalities is used next to prove continuity

analyzed to identify and enforce optimal system configurations. The QoSMOS self-adaptation mechanism can handle reliability and performance-related QoS requirements, and can be integrated into newly developed solutions or legacy systems. The effectiveness and scalability of the approach are validated using

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Abstract Message-oriented event-driven systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in many industry do-mains including telecommunications, transportation and supply chain management. Applications in these areas typically have stringent requirements for performance and scalability. To guarantee

Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become increasingly popular in the recent years, particularly in the form of online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These games support up to several ten thousand players interacting in a virtual game world. The current commercially successful games

in partial ful2llment of the requirements for the degree of

Abstract—Causal processing of a signal’s samples is crucial in on-line applications such as audio rate conversion, compression, tracking and more. This paper addresses the problems of predict-ing future samples and causally interpolating deterministic sig-nals. We treat a rich variety of sampling

of scalability and maintainability. Hence, different approaches are based on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology. In particular, fast-paced NVEs stress these systems and most likely cause high overlay maintenance overhead. This Master’s Thesis presents a novel approach to spatial Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) in P2P