In a peer-to-peer inference system, each peer can reason locally but can also solicit some of its acquaintances, which are peers sharing part of its vocabulary. In this paper, we ...
This paper concerns the management of energy in data centers using a cyber-physical model that supports the coordinated control of both computational and thermal (cooling) resource...
Luca Parolini, Emanuele Garone, Bruno Sinopoli, Br...
One of the most difficult problems to be solved by metacomputing systems is to ensure strong authentication and authorization. The problem is complicated since the hosts involved ...
Producing work schedules for airline crew normally results in individually different schedules. Some airlines do however want to give the same schedule to groups of people. The con...
The profitability and morale of many organizations (such as factories, hospitals and airlines) are affected by their ability to schedule their personnel properly. Sophisticated an...
Edward P. K. Tsang, John A. Ford, Patrick Mills, R...