We consider the problem of coordinating a team of agents engaged in executing a set of inter-dependent, geographically dispersed tasks in an oversubscribed and uncertain environme...
Laura Barbulescu, Zachary B. Rubinstein, Stephen F...
Component frameworks, including those that support the Common Component Architecture (CCA), represent a promising approach to addressing this challenge, one that is being realized...
Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Michael J. Lewis, Kenneth...
A large-scale, distributed video-on-demand (VOD) system allows geographically dispersed residential and business users to access video services, such as movies and other multimedia...
Constantinos Vassilakis, Michael Paterakis, Peter ...
The server side of business software systems is commonly implemented today by an ensemble of Java classes distributed over several hosts. In this scenario, it is often necessary, ...
Marco Milazzo, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Emiliano Tramo...
In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...