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COCOON
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Server Allocation Algorithms for Tiered Systems
Many web-based systems have a tiered application architecture, in which a request needs to transverse all the tiers before finishing its processing. One of the most important QoS...
Kamalika Chaudhuri, Anshul Kothari, Rudi Pendaving...
SIGECOM
2010
ACM
183views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2010»
15 years 2 months ago
The unavailable candidate model: a decision-theoretic view of social choice
One of the fundamental problems in the theory of social choice is aggregating the rankings of a set of agents (or voters) into a consensus ranking. Rank aggregation has found appl...
Tyler Lu, Craig Boutilier
FCS
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Coordinating Planning Agents for Moderately and Tightly-Coupled Tasks
In many task-planning domains, dynamic assemblies of autonomous agents are replacing hierarchical organisations because they promise more agility. In such assemblies, interdepende...
J. Renze Steenhuisen, Cees Witteveen
IM
2007
14 years 11 months ago
Business-Driven Optimization of Policy-Based Management solutions
— We consider whether the off-line compilation of a set of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) into low-level management policies can lead to the runtime maximization of the overall ...
Issam Aib, Raouf Boutaba
RSS
2007
119views Robotics» more  RSS 2007»
14 years 11 months ago
Emergent Task Allocation for Mobile Robots
— Multi-robot systems require efficient and accurate planning in order to perform mission-critical tasks. However, algorithms that find the optimal solution are usually computa...
Nuzhet Atay, O. Burçhan Bayazit