Distributed allocation mechanisms rely on the agents' autonomous (and supposedly rational) behaviour: states evolve as a result of agents contracting deals and exchanging res...
Many real-time applications are designed to work in different operating modes each characterized by different functionality and resource demands. With each mode change, resource d...
Nikolay Stoimenov, Lothar Thiele, Luca Santinelli,...
Decentralized MDPs provide a powerful formal framework for planning in multi-agent systems, but the complexity of the model limits its usefulness. We study in this paper a class o...
Raphen Becker, Shlomo Zilberstein, Victor R. Lesse...
: Parallel database systems aim at providing high throughput for OLTP transactions as well as short response times for complex and data-intensive queries. Shared nothing systems re...
We study algorithmic problems in multi-stage open shop processing systems that are centered around reachability and deadlock detection questions. We characterize safe and unsafe s...
Christian Eggermont, Alexander Schrijver, Gerhard ...