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IDC
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Cost of Cooperation for Scheduling Meetings
Scheduling meetings among agents can be represented as a game - the Meetings Scheduling Game (MSG). In its simplest form, the two-person MSG is shown to have a price of anarchy (Po...
Alon Grubshtein, Amnon Meisels
FGCS
2008
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13 years 11 months ago
A case for cooperative and incentive-based federation of distributed clusters
Research interest in Grid computing has grown significantly over the past five years. Management of distributed resources is one of the key issues in Grid computing. Central to ma...
Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya
ISWC
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
When Cyborgs Meet: Building Communities of Cooperating Wearable Agents
This paper introduces the notion of a Wearable Community as a group of wearable users who cooperate for their mutual benefit. In such a community, wearable computers act as person...
Gerd Kortuem, Jay Schneider, Jim Suruda, Stephen F...
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Scheduling Meetings Using Distributed Valued Constraint Satisfaction Algorithm
Abstract. Scheduling meetings is generally difficult in that it attempts to satisfy the preferences of all participants. However, all participants can agree to a schedule in which...
Takuo Tsuruta, Toramatsu Shintani
IWCMC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Scheduling cooperative emergency response: or how the meek shall overcome the greedy
We consider the problem of scheduling emergency responders to geospatially located finite duration temporally bounded tasks. We consider two different schedulers, Greedy and Mee...
Carol Dottin, Bilal Khan