We consider a distributed server system and ask which policy should be used for assigning tasks to hosts. In our server, tasks are not preemptible. Also, the task's service d...
We describe a very large scale distributed robotic system, involving a team of over 100 robots, that has been successfully deployed in large, unknown indoor environments, over ext...
This paper presents an extension of Petri net framework with imprecise temporal properties. We use possibility theory to represent imprecise time by time-stamping tokens and assig...
With the advent of globalization and the Internet, the concept of global software development is gaining ground. The global development model opens up the possibility of 24-hour s...
We explore the problem of assigning heterogeneous tasks to workers with different, unknown skill sets in crowdsourcing markets such as Amazon Mechanical Turk. We first formalize ...