This paper addresses the complexity of analyzing and designing sociotechnical systems:
systems that involve both complex physical-technical systems and networks of …

The ultimate goal of cloud providers by providing resources is increasing their revenues.
This goal leads to a selfish behavior that negatively affects the users of a commercial …

Performance evaluation of multiagent systems (MAS) embraces several challenges due to
uncertain operational environments, such as software/hardware failures and unfaithful …

In the past decades, distributed systems have been widely applied to real-time applications,
most of which have fault-tolerance requirements to assure high reliability. Due to the …

We analyze rational strategies of users in a dynamic grid market. We consider efficient
usage of the shared resources in modeling users' preference relations, an objective that …

The interplay between decision-making and decision-support tools has proven puzzling for
many years. One of the most popular decision-support tools, what-if analysis, is no …

In previous work on collective synchronization of multi-agents, they always follow the
assumptions that the synchronization is flat where all agents have the same synchronization …

In this paper, we introduce a novel auction-based decision support system to help a firm
readily assemble supply chains. At this aim, we tackle the problem of deciding whether to …

This work concerns part of our project, devoted to the development of an agent-team-based
Grid resource brokering and management system. Here, open issues that have to be …

In recent decades, heterogeneous parallel and distributed systems such as Grids and
Clouds are commonly used environments for the execution of large-scale applications. The …