We consider multi-class blocking systems in which jobs require a single processing step. There are groups of servers that can each serve a different subset of all job classes. The...
The use of software agents for automatic contract negotiation in e-commerce and e-trading ents has been the subject of considerable recent interest. A widely studied abstract mode...
Paul E. Dunne, Michael Wooldridge, Michael Laurenc...
This paper addresses the problem of variable ranking for Support Vector Regression. The relevance criteria that we proposed are based on leave-one-out bounds and some variants and...
We consider the problem of maximizing the reliability of a series-parallel system given cost and weight constraints on the system. The number of components in each subsystem and th...
Ant colonies, and more generally social insect societies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organiz...