This paper analyzes and compares different incentive mechanisms for a client to motivate
the collaboration of smartphone users on both data acquisition and distributed computing …

Game theory is a field of applied mathematics that studies strategic behavior of rational
factors. In other words, game theory is a collection of analytical tools that can be used to …

Scheduling multiple large-scale parallel workflow applications on heterogeneous computing
systems like hybrid clouds is a fundamental NP-complete problem that is critical to meeting …

In this paper, we present a game theoretic approach to solve the static load balancing
problem for single-class and multi-class (multi-user) jobs in a distributed system where the …

Comprehensive and timely, Cloud Computing: Concepts and Technologies offers a
thorough and detailed description of cloud computing concepts, architectures, and …

Game theory provides a mathematical tool for the analysis of distributed decision making
interactions between agents with conflicting interests. We apply game theory for distributed …

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) enables the mobile devices to offload their applications to
the cloud and thus greatly enriches the types of applications on mobile devices and …

Abstract Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) has been introduced to be a prospective
technology with the explosive growth of mobile applications and evolving cloud computing …

The current global emphasis on “Internet of Things (IoT)” have highlighted the extreme
importance of sensor-based intelligent and ubiquitous systems which are more commonly …

When a set of self-interested users shares multiple resources in a distributed system, we
face the problem of allocating resources, called the load balancing problem. In particular …