Scheduling data processing workflows (dataflows) on the cloud is a very complex and challenging task. It is essentially an optimization problem, very similar to query optimizati...
Herald Kllapi, Eva Sitaridi, Manolis M. Tsangaris,...
As energy-related costs have become a major economical factor for IT infrastructures and data-centers, companies and the research community are being challenged to find better an...
Column generation has proven to be efficient in solving the linear programming relaxation of large scale instances ofthemultiple-depotvehicleschedulingproblem(MDVSP).Howeverdif...
Amar Oukil, Hatem Ben Amor, Jacques Desrosiers, Hi...
Quality of service (QoS) mechanisms allowing users to request for turn-around time guarantees for their jobs have recently generated much interest. In our previous work we had des...
Mohammad Islam, Pavan Balaji, Gerald Sabin, P. Sad...
Abstract. This paper will discuss the internal architecture for an agent framework called DECAF (Distributed Environment Centered Agent Framework). DECAF is a software toolkit for ...