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CASCON
2007
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SLA-driven business process management in SOA
The management of non-functional goals, or Service Level Agreements (SLA), in the development of business processes in a Service Oriented Architecture often requires much manual a...
Vinod Muthusamy, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Phil Coulthar...
ECIS
2000
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A Systematic Analysis of the Effect of Task Clarity on Software Development Design
Two different types of development tasks are distinguished: Clear and unclear development tasks. Based on hypotheses from organizational theory two different designs of software d...
Werner Mellis
IJCAI
1993
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Provably Bounded Optimal Agents
Since its inception, arti cial intelligence has relied upon a theoretical foundation centred around perfect rationality as the desired property of intelligent systems. We argue, a...
Stuart J. Russell, Devika Subramanian, Ronald Parr
ADHOC
2010
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15 years 6 months ago
Sleep/wake scheduling for multi-hop sensor networks: Non-convexity and approximation algorithm
We investigate the problem of sleep/wake scheduling for low duty cycle sensor networks. Our work differs from prior work in that we explicitly consider the effect of synchronizati...
Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff
MANSCI
2006
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Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
Gérard P. Cachon, Fuqiang Zhang