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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On k-optimal distributed constraint optimization algorithms: new bounds and algorithms
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a promising approach to coordination, scheduling and task allocation in multi agent networks. In large-scale or low-bandwidth network...
Emma Bowring, Jonathan P. Pearce, Christopher Port...
ICPADS
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
On the relative value of local scheduling versus routing in parallel server systems
We consider a system with a dispatcher and several identical servers in parallel. Task processing times are known upon arrival. We first study the impact of the local scheduling ...
Rong Wu, Douglas G. Down
TPDS
2002
112views more  TPDS 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Performance Analysis of a Distributed Question/Answering System
The problem of question/answering (Q/A) is to find answers to open-domain questions by searching large collections of documents. Unlike information retrieval systems, very common ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Dan I. Moldovan, Sanda M. Harabagi...
SAC
2003
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Manpower Scheduling with Time Windows
In this paper, we propose a manpower allocation model with time windows which is of practical interest to serviceman scheduling operations. Specifically, this problem originates f...
Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigues, Lei Song
PPSN
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Analysis of Dynamic Severity and Population Size
This work introduces a general mathematical framework for non-stationary fitness functions which enables the exact definition of certain problem properties. The properties' in...
Karsten Weicker