Service-based distributed computing as a mode of resource sharing is receiving increased attention, motivated both by enterprise applications and by standardization efforts in the...
Dawid Kurzyniec, Tomasz Wrzosek, Vaidy S. Sunderam
This paper deals with large, distributed real-time systems that have execution times and resource utilizations which cannot be characterized a priori. (The motivation for our work ...
Lonnie R. Welch, Michael W. Masters, Leslie A. Mad...
Objects are collected into an object base because of a presumed need for cooperation among them. In classical object bases the cooperation is based on synchronous, preplanned mess...
In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumer agents to automatically select and provision service provider agents for their workflows in highly dynamic...
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Pa...
Patient scheduling in hospitals is a highly complex task. Hospitals have a distributed organisational structure; being divided into several autonomous wards and ancillary units. M...
Torsten O. Paulussen, Nicholas R. Jennings, Keith ...