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CIA
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
The Helpful Environment: Distributed Agents and Services Which Cooperate
Imagine a future environment where networks of agents - people, robots and software agents - interact with sophisticated sensor grids and environmental actuators to provide advice,...
Austin Tate
AIPS
2008
14 years 5 days ago
Linear Relaxation Techniques for Task Management in Uncertain Settings
In this paper, we consider the problem of assisting a busy user in managing her workload of pending tasks. We assume that our user is typically oversubscribed, and is invariably j...
Pradeep Varakantham, Stephen F. Smith
JALC
2006
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13 years 9 months ago
Quality-Aware Service Delegation in Automated Web Service Composition: An Automata-Theoretic Approach
Automated Web Service Composition has gained a significant momentum in facilitating fast and efficient formation of business-to-business collaborations where an important objectiv...
Oscar H. Ibarra, Bala Ravikumar, Cagdas Evren Gere...
AC
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Timeboxing process model for iterative software development
In today's business where speed is of essence, an iterative development approach that allows the functionality to be delivered in parts has become a necessity and an effectiv...
Pankaj Jalote, Aveejeet Palit, Priya Kurien
IOR
2002
135views more  IOR 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
A Fluid Heuristic for Minimizing Makespan in Job Shops
We describe a simple on-line heuristic for scheduling job-shops. We assume there is a fixed set of routes for the jobs, and many jobs, say N, on each route. The heuristic uses saf...
J. G. Dai, Gideon Weiss