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ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
How to calm hyperactive agents
System performance in multi-agent resource allocation systems can often improve if individual agents reduce their activity. Agents in such systems need a way to modulate their ind...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Resource allocation games with changing resource capacities
In this paper we study a class of resource allocation games which are inspired by the El Farol Bar problem. We consider a system of competitive agents that have to choose between ...
Aram Galstyan, Shashikiran Kolar, Kristina Lerman
ISSRE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Optimal Resource Allocation for the Quality Control Process
Software development project employs some Quality Control (QC) process to detect and remove defects. The final quality of the delivered software depends on the effort spent on al...
Pankaj Jalote, Bijendra Vishal
ISCC
2003
IEEE
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Aggregate Based Resource Allocation With Rerouting
This paper studies the effect of rerouting for augmenting aggregate based resource allocation in the trade-off between overhead and utilization. Aggregation is a common approach t...
Coskun Cetinkaya, Mun Choon Chan, Yow-Jian Lin
ICNP
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Optimal Resource Allocation in Overlay Multicast
This paper targets the problem of optimal resource allocation in overlay multicast, which poses both theoretical and practical challenges. Theoretically, resource allocation among...
Yi Cui, Yuan Xue, Klara Nahrstedt
HICSS
2003
IEEE
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Allocating Time and Resources in Project Management Under Uncertainty
We define and develop a solution approach for planning, scheduling and managing project efforts where there is significant uncertainty in the duration, resource requirements and o...
Mark A. Turnquist, Linda K. Nozick
ESAW
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Welfare Engineering in Practice: On the Variety of Multiagent Resource Allocation Problems
Abstract. Many problems studied in the multiagent systems community can be considered instances of an abstract multiagent resource allocation problem. In this problem, which is now...
Yann Chevaleyre, Ulrich Endriss, Sylvia Estivie, N...
ATAL
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Resource Allocation in the Grid Using Reinforcement Learning
One of the main challenges in Grid computing is efficient allocation of resources (CPU-hours, network bandwidth, etc.) to the tasks submitted by users. Due to the lack of centrali...
Aram Galstyan, Karl Czajkowski, Kristina Lerman
QOSIP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Utility Proportional Fair Bandwidth Allocation: An Optimization Oriented Approach
In this paper, we present a novel approach to the congestion control and resource allocation problem of elastic and real-time traffic in telecommunication networks. With the concep...
Tobias Harks
PPAM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Agent-Based Grid Scheduling with Calana
Grid resource allocation is a complex task that is usually solved by systems relying on a centralized information system. In order to create a lightweight scheduling system, we inv...
Mathias Dalheimer, Franz-Josef Pfreundt, Peter Mer...