Markets for electronic goods provide the possibility of exploring new and more complex pricing schemes, due to the flexibility of information goods and negligible marginal cost. I...
Christopher H. Brooks, Scott A. Fay, Rajarshi Das,...
With the widespread use of embedded devices such as PDAs, printers, game machines, cellular telephones, achieving high performance demands an optimized operating system (OS) that ...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Guangyu Chen, Wei Zhang 0002, ...
Distributed computations, dealing with large amounts of data, are scheduled in Grid clusters today using either a task-centric mechanism, or a worker-centric mechanism. Because of ...
We introduce the Multiagent Agreement Problem (MAP) to represent a class of multiagent scheduling problems. MAP is based on the Distributed Constraint Reasoning (DCR) paradigm and...
Previous work on task scheduling mechanisms assumed that the agent’s goal is to maximize its own profit without considering the effect of its strategy on the other agents’ pr...