Title :
Avoiding deadlock using pricing strategies for networks of intelligent personal assistants
Author :
De Wilde, Philippe ; Lee, Lyndon C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
Abstract :
We describe a pricing strategy for a realistic large-scale distributed system. This system consists of automatic personal assistants (PA´s) that can book time-slots in each other´s diaries, and that have to pay for doing so. The price is set by the PA who owns the time-slot
Keywords :
concurrency control; cooperative systems; costing; distributed processing; automatic personal assistants; distributed system; large-scale distributed system; pricing strategy; Communications technology; Costs; Educational institutions; Intelligent networks; Intelligent systems; Minutes; Noise robustness; Pricing; Robust stability; System recovery;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2001 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tucson, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7087-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2001.971950
