— While multicast has been studied extensively in many domains such as content streaming and file sharing, there is little research applying it to synchronous collaborations invo...
For an enterprise to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by electronic commerce it must be able to make decisions about business transactions in near-realtime. In the com...
The availability of programmable hardware devices with high density of logic elements and the possibility of implementing CPUs (called softcores) using a fraction of the FPGA area...
Distributed constraint optimization (DCOP) is a promising approach to coordination, scheduling and task allocation in multi agent networks. In large-scale or low-bandwidth network...
Emma Bowring, Jonathan P. Pearce, Christopher Port...
We present a new approach to optimal rectangle packing, an NP-complete problem that can be used to model many simple scheduling tasks. Recent attempts at incorporating artificial ...