This paper addresses the problem of scheduling parallel tasks, represented by a direct acyclic graph (DAG) on heterogeneous clusters. Parallel tasks, also called malleable tasks, ...
Jorge G. Barbosa, C. N. Morais, R. Nobrega, A. P. ...
We consider distributed applications that continuously stream data across the network, where data needs to be aggregated and processed to produce a 'useful' stream of up...
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Zhongtang Cai, Gre...
Many governmental agencies and businesses organizations use networked systems to provide a number of services. Such a service-oriented network can be implemented as an overlay on ...
Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, Sanjay Goel, S. S. Ravi, Ja...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...
A multi-agent system can be analyzed and specified as an organization consisting of roles and their relations. The performance of an organization depends on many factors among whi...
Davide Grossi, Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum, Mehd...