Scheduling large amounts of tasks in distributed computing platforms composed of millions of nodes is a challenging goal, even more in a fully decentralized way and with low overhe...
In this paper we introduce Challenger, a multiagent system that performs completely distributed resource allocation. Challenger consists of agents which individually manage local ...
In this paper, a teleservice for archiving and retrieving multimedia documents using public networks is described. This teleservice encourages a broad range of commercially applic...
In the global economy, proper organisation and planning of production and storage locations, transportation and scheduling are vital to retain the competitive edge of companies. Th...
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...