The management of networks has often been ignored in network-based computing systems due to the difficulty of estimating application programs' network latency and bandwidth r...
Abstract. In distributed resource allocation a set of agents must assign their resources to a set of tasks. This problem arises in many real-world domains such as distributed senso...
Pragnesh Jay Modi, Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe, W...
The Brooks' Law says that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Brooks developed the law through observation of many projects and derived the generalizat...
We present an improved sweep metaheuristic for discrete event simulation optimization. The sweep algorithm is a tree search similar to beam search. The basic idea is to run a limi...
The processes carried out in a hospital emergency department can be thought of as structures of activities that require resources in order to execute. Costs are reduced when resou...