In this paper, we study the problem of achieving efficient interaction in a distributed scheduling system whose scheduling agents may borrow resources from one another. Specifical...
Daniel E. Neiman, David W. Hildum, Victor R. Lesse...
This paper describes the architecture of a distributed workflow management system in a dynamic environment. The system features autonomous agent components that can adapt to both s...
Maryam Purvis, Martin K. Purvis, Azhar Haidar, Bas...
Open distributed systems such as service oriented architecture and cloud computing have emerged as promising platforms to deliver software as a service to users. However, for many...
In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of available computing and storage resources. Yet few have been able to exploit these resources in an aggregated ...
James Frey, Todd Tannenbaum, Miron Livny, Ian T. F...
Service providers of the future could dynamically negotiate for, and create their infrastructure on Grid based utility computing and communication providers. Such commercialisatio...