The design of deterministic and fair mechanisms for selection among a set of self-motivated agents based solely on these agents' input is a major challenge in multiagent syst...
Abstract. Autonomic computing is being advocated as a tool for managing large, complex computing systems. Specifically, self-organisation provides a suitable approach for developi...
Ramachandra Kota, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. Je...
Scheduling is a key problem in distributed heterogeneous computing systems in order to benefit from the large computing capacity of such systems and is an NP-complete problem. In ...
Despite the availability of video-on-demand (VoD) services in a number of cities around the world, large-scale deployment of VoD services in a metropolitan area is still economical...
Abstract--The use of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in material-handling processes of manufacturing facilities and warehouses isbecomingincreasinglycommon.AcriticaldrawbackofanAG...