Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task. In order to e...
Abstract—Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology where a reader device can “sense” the presence of a closeby object by reading a tag device attached to the obj...
Zongheng Zhou, Himanshu Gupta, Samir R. Das, Xianj...
We present SGuard, a new fault-tolerance technique for distributed stream processing engines (SPEs) running in clusters of commodity servers. SGuard is less disruptive to normal s...
YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazinska, Albert G. Gre...
— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
— A hormone-inspired task scheduling method is described which assigns tasks to a group of robots, taking into account the robots’ performances. This method draws on previous w...