Temporal plans permit significant flexibility in specifying the occurrence time of events. Plan execution can make good use of that flexibility. However, the advantage of executio...
Ioannis Tsamardinos, Nicola Muscettola, Paul H. Mo...
To address coordination and complexity issues, we formulate a grid task allocation problem as a bargaining based self-adaptive auction and propose the BarSAA grid task-bundle alloc...
Abstract--Limited preemption scheduling has been introduced as a viable alternative to non-preemptive and fullypreemptive scheduling when reduced blocking times need to coexist wit...
Marko Bertogna, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Mauro Marinon...
As Service-Oriented Computing is gaining mainstream adoption, Services are emerging as core-building blocks of today's applications. In particular, web services have become t...
The performance of peer-to-peer systems depends on the level of cooperation of the system's participants. While most existing peer-to-peer architectures have assumed that user...