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ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 17 days ago
An analysis of feasible solutions for multi-issue negotiation involving nonlinear utility functions
This paper analyzes bilateral multi-issue negotiation between selfinterested agents. Specifically, we consider the case where issues are divisible, there are time constraints in ...
S. Shaheen Fatima, Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R....
CCGRID
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 days ago
A Relaxed-Criteria Bargaining Protocol for Grid Resource Management
Since participants in a computational Grid may be independent bodies, some mechanisms are necessary for resolving their differences. The contribution of this work is designing a b...
Kwang Mong Sim, Ka Fung Ng
DSN
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic QoS Guarantees for Supercomputing Systems
Supercomputing systems must be able to reliably and efficiently complete their assigned workloads, even in the presence of failures. This paper proposes a system that allows the ...
Adam J. Oliner, Larry Rudolph, Ramendra K. Sahoo, ...
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Flexible service provisioning with advance agreements
In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumer agents to automatically select and provision service provider agents for their workflows in highly dynamic...
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Pa...
IM
2007
13 years 7 months ago
A decision support tool to optimize scheduling of IT changes
— Change management is one of the most critical processes in IT management. Some of the reasons are the sheer number of changes and the difficulty of evaluating the impact of cha...
Rodrigo Rebouças, Jacques Philippe Sauv&eac...