Optimal resource scheduling in multiagent systems is a computationally challenging task, particularly when the values of resources are not additive. We consider the combinatorial ...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Michael R. James, Michael E. Sam...
A major challenge in Metacomputing Systems (Computational Grids) is to effectively use their shared resources, such as compute cycles, memory, communication network, and data repo...
Ammar H. Alhusaini, Viktor K. Prasanna, Cauligi S....
There is an increasing need for Internet hosts to be able to quickly and efficiently learn the distance, in terms of metrics such as latency or bandwidth, between Internet hosts. ...
Paul Francis, Sugih Jamin, Vern Paxson, Lixia Zhan...
The steel production of the German company Saarstahl AG, a global respected steel manufacturer, represents a Supply Chain which comprehends several time-critical and highly interf...
Recently, much attention has been paid on data-driven (or swarm-like) based live streaming systems due to its rapid growth in deployment over Internet. In such systems, nodes rando...