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ICMAS
1998
13 years 9 months ago
A Market Protocol for Decentralized Task Allocation
We present a decentralized, asynchronous market protocol for allocating and scheduling tasks among agents that contend for scarce resources, constrained by a hierarchical task dep...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Mechanism Design for Single Leader Stackelberg Problems and Application to Procurement Auction Design
In this paper, we focus on mechanism design for single leader Stackelberg problems, which are a special case of hierarchical decision making problems in which a distinguished agent...
Dinesh Garg, Y. Narahari
CDC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Nonuniform coverage and cartograms
In this paper, we investigate nonuniform coverage of a planar region by a network of autonomous, mobile agents. We derive centralized nonuniform coverage control laws from uniform ...
Francois Lekien, Naomi Ehrich Leonard
IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 hour ago
Enhancing NWS for Use in an SNMP Managed Internetwork
The Network Weather Service NWS is a distributed resource monitoring and utilization prediction system, employed as an aid to scheduling jobs in a metacomputing environment 9, 1...
Robert E. Busby Jr., Mitchell L. Neilsen, Daniel A...
ATAL
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Decomposing constraint systems: equivalences and computational properties
Distributed systems can often be modeled as a collection of distributed (system) variables whose values are constrained by a set of constraints. In distributed multi-agent systems...
Wiebe van der Hoek, Cees Witteveen, Michael Wooldr...