Abstract—This paper addresses the problem of execution time estimation for tasks in a software pipeline independent of the application structure or the underlying architecture. A...
—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Abstract— Trajectory planning and optimization is a fundamental problem in articulated robotics. It is often viewed as a two phase problem of initial feasible path planning aroun...
Electronic negotiation experiments provide a rich source of information about relationships between the negotiators, their individual actions, and the negotiation dynami...