Sciweavers

6028 search results - page 42 / 1206
» Randomness as a resource for design
Sort
View
CIA
2003
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Resource Discovery in Multi-agent Systems
A multi-agent system is a network of software agents that cooperate to solve problems. In open multi-agent systems, the agents that need resources provided by other agents are not ...
Vassilios V. Dimakopoulos, Evaggelia Pitoura
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the Design of Online Scheduling Algorithms for Advance Reservations and QoS in Grids
Abstract— We consider the problem of providing QoS guarantees to Grid users through advance reservation of resources. Advance reservation mechanisms provide the ability to alloca...
Claris Castillo, George N. Rouskas, Khaled Harfous...
IJHPCA
2006
109views more  IJHPCA 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
A Resource Leasing Policy for on-Demand Computing
Leasing computational resources for on-demand computing is now a viable option for providers of network services. Temporary spikes or lulls in demand for a service can be accommod...
Darin England, Jon B. Weissman
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
GUARD: Gossip Used for Autonomous Resource Detection
A growing trend in the development and deployment of grid computing systems is decentralization. Decentralizing these systems helps make them more scalable and robust, but poses s...
Sagnik Nandy, Larry Carter, Jeanne Ferrante
WD
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Vicinity resource cartography for delay-tolerant networks: A holistic perspective
In this paper we propose a distributed approach to construct vicinity resource maps at each node in a delaytolerant network. The scheme uses recent encounters to estimate the avail...
Gabriel Sandulescu, Péter Schaffer, Simin N...