In this paper we consider the following scenario. A set of n jobs with different threads is being run concurrently. Each job has an associated weight, which gives the proportion ...
Micah Adler, Petra Berenbrink, Tom Friedetzky, Les...
This paper presents an ant-inspired algorithm for building a self-organizing information system of a Grid. Ant-inspired mobile agents travel the Grid through P2P (peer-to-peer) int...
Agostino Forestiero, Carlo Mastroianni, Giandomeni...
Fairness is an essential requirement of any operating system scheduler. Unfortunately, existing fair scheduling algorithms are either inaccurate or inefficient and non-scalable fo...
In multi-issue negotiations, autonomous agents can act cooperatively to benefit from mutually preferred agreements. However, empirical evidence suggests that they often fail to s...
Large-scale distributed systems are hard to deploy, and distributed hash tables (DHTs) are no exception. To lower the barriers facing DHT-based applications, we have created a pub...
Sean C. Rhea, Brighten Godfrey, Brad Karp, John Ku...