Approximating service utility from policies and value function patterns

Proceedings - Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, POLICY 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 159-168

  Lamparter, Steffen ^a   Oberle, Daniel ^a   Eberhart, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECHNICAL WRITING;

ELECTRONIC MARKETS; ON THE FLY COMPOSITIONS; SERVICE UTILITY;

UTILITY PROGRAMS;

EID: 33744991762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/POLICY.2005.7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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