— Multi-agent coordination problems can be cast as distributed optimization tasks. Probability Collectives (PCs) are techniques that deal with such problems in discrete and conti...
The architecture of a software system has a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS) as measured by several performance metrics such as execution time, availability, th...
Reward-based scheduling refers to the problem in which there is a reward associated with the execution of a task. In our framework, each real-time task comprises a mandatory and a...
This paper questions the status quo regarding Security Management (SM) tools that function in an isolated, monolithic fashion. People work best by interacting with others and with...
A great deal of recent research has focused on the challenging task of selecting differentially expressed genes from microarray data (`gene selection'). Numerous gene selecti...