— Given an arbitrary network of interconnected nodes, each with an initial value from a discrete set, we consider the problem of distributively disseminating these initial values...
This paper addresses the issue of how to meet the strict timing constraints of (soft) real-time virtualized applications while the Virtual Machine (VM) hosting them is undergoing a...
The constraint paradigm provides powerful concepts to represent and solve different kinds of planning problems, e. g. factory scheduling. Factory scheduling is a demanding optimiz...
Sequential single-item auctions can be used for the distributed allocation of tasks to cooperating agents. We study how to improve the team performance of sequential singleitem au...
Sven Koenig, Xiaoming Zheng, Craig A. Tovey, Richa...
Software maintenance is responsible for as much as two thirds of the cost of any software, and is consequently an important research area. In this paper we focus on the change pro...