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...
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...
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...
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...
We investigate coordination issues in a distributed jobshop scheduling system in which agents schedulepotentially contentious activities asynchronously in parallel. Agents in such...