Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task. In order to e...
—This article studies the scheduling of critical embedded systems, which consist of a set of communicating periodic tasks with constrained deadlines. Currently, tasks are usually...
Scheduling large amounts of tasks in distributed computing platforms composed of millions of nodes is a challenging goal, even more in a fully decentralized way and with low overhe...
The Flexible Resource Manager (FRM) is a dynamic resource management approach that allows a better utilization of the available resources. However, it necessitates an atomic recon...
The low cost and wide availability of networks of workstations have made them an attractive solution for high performance computing. However, while a network of workstations may be...