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GRID
2007
Springer
14 years 9 months ago
Quality of Service Negotiation for Commercial Medical Grid Services
The GEMSS project has developed a service-oriented Grid that supports the provision of medical simulation services by service providers to clients such as hospitals. We outline the...
Stuart E. Middleton, Mike Surridge, Siegfried Benk...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
The RUNES Middleware for Networked Embedded Systems and its Application in a Disaster Management Scenario
Due to the inherent nature of their heterogeneity, resource scarcity and dynamism, the provision of middleware for future networked embedded environments is a challenging task. In...
Paolo Costa, Geoff Coulson, Richard Gold, Manish L...
HICSS
2003
IEEE
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15 years 2 months ago
Scheduling the Supply Chain by Teams of Agents
When a supply chain is established supply chain management (SCM) needs supporting tools for the tasks of operative planning, scheduling, and coordination. These tasks have to be p...
Jürgen Sauer, Hans-Jürgen Appelrath
DSN
2003
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Opportunity-Adaptive QoS Enhancement in Satellite Constellations: A Case Study
Systems that are formed by massively distributed mobile resources, such as satellite constellations, often provide mission-critical functions. However, many existing quality-of-se...
Ann T. Tai, Kam S. Tso, Leon Alkalai, Savio N. Cha...
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ICMAS
1998
14 years 11 months ago
Poaching and Distraction in Asynchronous Agent Activities
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...
Mike H. Chia, Daniel E. Neiman, Victor R. Lesser