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Virtualization is a technique for efficient utilization of hardware resources. Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) is a piece of software which facilitates hardware Virtualization. Software based Virtualization technologies encompass considerable instruction overhead. We have implemented a purely hardware-assisted VMM for x86 architecture on AMD Secure Virtual Machine (SVM) [1] to overcome the instruction overhead caused by software based Virtualization. The performance impact due to Virtualization is measured in terms of the CPU time consumed by certain critical sections of Virtualization specific code. A quantitative performance analysis using the purely Hardware-assisted Virtual Machine Monitor reveals that Hardware Virtualization at its current stage suffers from performance overhead, but improves considerably with hardware enhancement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the multi-issue negotiation between two self-interested agents. The outcome of such negotiations depends on the agenda and the negotiationprocedure. While most of the existing works are concerned with the negotiation strategy, we study the impact of varying agenda and procedure on the negotiation outcome. This is done under incomplete information settings with the equilibrium strategies defined for issue-by-issue and package deal negotiation procedures. On the basis of these strategies, the optimal agendaprocedure combination for each agent is determined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]