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SIGECOM
2000
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Combinatorial auctions for supply chain formation
Supply chain formation presents difficult coordination issues for distributed negotiation protocols. Agents must simultaneously negotiate production relationships at multiple lev...
William E. Walsh, Michael P. Wellman, Fredrik Ygge
ICPP
1999
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Multi-Capacity Bin Packing Algorithms with Applications to Job Scheduling under Multiple Constraints
In past massively parallel processing systems, such as the TMC CM-5 and the CRI T3E, the scheduling problem consisted of allocating a single type of resource among the waiting job...
William Leinberger, George Karypis, Vipin Kumar
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Combinatorial resource scheduling for multiagent MDPs
Optimal resource scheduling in multiagent systems is a computationally challenging task, particularly when the values of resources are not additive. We consider the combinatorial ...
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Michael R. James, Michael E. Sam...
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Scheduling Policies to Support Distributed 3D Multimedia Applications
We consider the problem of scheduling tasks with unpredictable service times on distinct processing nodes so as to meet a real-time deadline, given that all communication among no...
Thu D. Nguyen, John Zahorjan
AAAI
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Learning to Coordinate without Sharing Information
Researchers in the eld of Distributed Arti cial Intelligence (DAI) have been developing e cient mechanisms to coordinate the activities of multiple autonomous agents. The need for...
Sandip Sen, Mahendra Sekaran, John Hale