Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, ...
The preemptive real-time scheduling of sporadic parallel task systems is studied. We present an algorithm, called Gang EDF, which applies the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) policy ...
Our main goal in this paper is to study the scheduling of parallel BSP tasks on clusters of computers. We focus our attention on special characteristics of BSP tasks, which can use...
Indexing is often designed with the intent of dimensional reduction, that is, of generating standardised and uniform descriptive metadata. This could be characterised as a process ...
While interacting with other users in dynamic use contexts, one often aims at coordinating activities as events unfold. Such coordination can often be unplanned or impromptu. There...
Iyad Rahwan, Fernando Koch, Connor Graham, Anton K...