A market-based scheduling mechanism allocates resources indexed by time to alternative uses based on the bids of participating agents. Agents are typically interested in multiple ...
Michael P. Wellman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Danie...
— Existing workflow systems attempt to achieve high performance by intelligently scheduling tasks on resources, sometimes even attempting to move the largest data files on the hi...
— Grid computing requires network services beyond what is currently provided by the Best-Effort Internet. Among the different approaches towards network Quality of Service, aggre...
Cooperative problem solving with resource constraints are important in practical multi-agent systems. Resource constraints are necessary to handle practical problems including dis...
Toshihiro Matsui, Hiroshi Matsuo, Marius Silaghi, ...
Performance prediction is set to play a significant role in supportive middleware that is designed to manage workload on parallel and distributed computing systems. This middlewa...
Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, Helene N. Li...