Slowdown is used to measure the fairness degree of a scheduling algorithm in existing work. However, the fairness degree should be considered within a scheduling algorithm; rather...
Context-aware information systems for mobile users have to cope with a variety of requirements in order to be able to provide an added value that goes beyond simply location-based...
Fairness is an important performance criterion in all resource allocation schemes, including those in distributed computer systems. However, it is often specified only qualitativel...
The aim of our research is to provide a unified model for the composition and management of consumer care services. We identify design, composition, distribution and management as...
Kumari Wickramasinghe, Christian Guttmann, Michael...
Abstract Multi-agent systems (MASs) is an area of distributed artificial intelligence that emphasizes the joint behaviors of agents with some degree of autonomy and the complexiti...
Pieter Jan't Hoen, Karl Tuyls, Liviu Panait, Sean ...