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PDP
2010
IEEE
14 years 28 days ago
Distributed Scheduler of Workflows with Deadlines in a P2P Desktop Grid
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...
Javier Celaya, Unai Arronategui
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 23 days ago
Challenger: A Multi-agent System for Distributed Resource Allocation
In this paper we introduce Challenger, a multiagent system that performs completely distributed resource allocation. Challenger consists of agents which individually manage local ...
Anthony Chavez, Alexandros Moukas, Pattie Maes
COST
1994
Springer
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14 years 21 days ago
A Mail-Based Teleservice Architecture for Archiving and Retrieving Dynamically Composable Multimedia Documents
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...
Heiko Thimm, Katja Röhr, Thomas C. Rakow
HPCN
1995
Springer
14 years 5 days ago
Discrete optimisation and real-world problems
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...
Josef Kallrath, Anna Schreieck
ICMAS
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Poaching and Distraction in Asynchronous Agent Activities
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
Mike H. Chia, Daniel E. Neiman, Victor R. Lesser