A multi-agent VRP solver is presented in this paper. It utilizes the contract-net protocol based allocation and several improvement strategies. It provides the solution with the q...
Abstract. Data declustering speeds up large data set retrieval by partitioning the data across multiple disks or sites and performing retrievals in parallel. Performance is determi...
Hak-Cheol Kim, Mario A. Lopez, Scott T. Leutenegge...
Sensor networks introduce new resource allocation problems in which sensors need to be assigned to the tasks they best help. Such problems have been previously studied in simplifi...
Hosam Rowaihy, Matthew P. Johnson, Diego Pizzocaro...
Many optimization techniques have been adopted for efficient job scheduling in grid computing, such as: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and stochastic methods. Such techni...
Renato Porfirio Ishii, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello,...
— Due to resource scarcity, a paramount concern in ad hoc networks is to utilize the limited resources efficiently. The self-organized nature of ad hoc networks makes the social...