—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...
Abstract. The workshop on job scheduling strategies for parallel processing (JSSPP) studies the myriad aspects of managing resources on parallel and distributed computers. These st...
One of the critical problems in the call center industries is the staffing problem since they must face variable demands and because staff costs represent a major part of the cost...
Most space-sharing resources presently operated by high performance computing centers employ some sort of batch queueing system to manage resource allocation to multiple users. In...
One machine scheduling problem with fuzzy processing times and a penalty for each job being late (the penalty is independent of the magnitude of the lateness) is considered. The o...