A market-based scheduling mechanism allocates resources indexed by time to alternative uses based on the bids of participating agents. Agents are typically interested in multiple ...
Michael P. Wellman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Danie...
Current collaborative work environments are characterized by dynamically changing organizational structures. Although there have been several efforts to refine work distribution, ...
This paper addresses the design of control policies for groups of up to 16 simple autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) for the cooperative transport of heavy objects of differe...
Grid computing promises the ability to share geographically and organizationally distributed resources to increase effective computational power and resource utilization. However,...
Youn-Seok Kim, Jung-Lok Yu, Jae-Gyoon Hahm, Jinsoo...
In a Computational Grid which consists of many computer clusters, job start time predictions are useful to guide resource selections and balance the workload distribution. However...
Hui Li, David L. Groep, Jeffrey Templon, Lex Wolte...