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WSC
2000
15 years 1 months ago
Use of discrete event simulation to validate an agent based scheduling engine
This paper discusses the use of simulation in a new context. Most often QUEST is viewed as a stand-alone simulation tool to analyze and understand shop floor behavior. It has rare...
Shubhabrata Biswas, Sara Merchawi
93
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SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
15 years 3 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
88
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ICDCS
2003
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Compiler Scheduling of Mobile Agents for Minimizing Overheads
Mobile code carried by a mobile agent can automatically travel to several data sources in order to complete a designated program. Traditionally, most mobile agent systems [7][8][1...
Xiaotong Zhuang, Santosh Pande
77
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ICMAS
1998
15 years 1 months ago
Multi-Machine Scheduling - A Multi-Agent Learning Approach
Multi-machine scheduling, that is, the assigment of jobs to machines such that certain performance demands like cost and time effectiveness are fulfilled, is a ubiquitous and comp...
Wilfried Brauer, Gerhard Weiß
ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Reasoning intra-dependency in commitments for robust scheduling
Commitment-modeled protocols enable flexible and robust interactions among agents. However, existing work has focused on features and capabilities of protocols without considerin...
Mingzhong Wang, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Jinjun Che...