Message-passing mechanism is commonly used to preserve data coherency in distributed systems. This paper presents an algorithm for insertion of minimal message-passing in system-l...
The routing and scheduling of vehicles and their crews is an area of increasing importance. In this paper, we describe a large scale vehicle scheduling and routing problem which i...
Abstract--Network performance can be increased if the traditionally separated network layers are jointly optimized. Recently, network utility maximization has emerged as a powerful...
Abstract--The paper proposes a model which allows integration of services published by independent providers into scientific or business workflows. Optimization algorithms are prop...
We present a new hybrid algorithm for local search in distributed combinatorial optimization. This method is a mix between classical local search methods in which nodes take decis...