Reasoning with conditional time-intervals representing activities or tasks that may or may not be executed in the final schedule is crucial in many scheduling applications. In Con...
In today's global marketplace, the information associated with a product is fast becoming a critical link in the supply chain. Especially in fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs...
This paper proposes the study of a new computation model that attempts to address the underlying sources of performance degradation (e.g. latency, overhead, and starvation) and th...
Guang R. Gao, Thomas L. Sterling, Rick Stevens, Ma...
In this paper, we present an approach to global transactionmanagementinworkflowenvironments.Thetransaction mechanism is based on the well-known notion of compensation, but extended...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jochem Vonk, Peter M. G. Ape...
Abstract. A new approach to develop parallel and distributed scheduling algorithms for multiprocessor systems is proposed. Its main innovation lies in evolving a decomposition of t...
Franciszek Seredynski, Jacek Koronacki, Cezary Z. ...