Designers of distributed systems often rely on replicas for increased robustness, scalability, and performance. Replicated server architectures require some technique to select a ...
The interoperability among distributed and autonomous systems is the ultimate challenge facing the semantic web. Heterogeneity of data representation is the main source of problem...
This paper describes LS/ATN, Living Systems R Adaptive Transportation Networks, an agent-based solution we have developed to solve transportation problems in the charter business ...
Rapid changes in the business environment call for more flexible and adaptive workflow systems. Researchers have proposed that Workflow Management Systems (WfMSs) comprising multi...
Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Maryam Purvis, Martin...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs in soft real-time systems, where the utility of completing each job decreases over time. We present a utility-based framework fo...