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ICIS
2001
15 years 7 months ago
Shared Mental Models and Coordination in Large-Scale, Distributed Software Development
Despite substantial improvements in the last few years in software engineering and collaboration tools, coordination in large-scale software development continues to be problemati...
J. Alberto Espinosa, Robert E. Kraut, F. Javier Le...
IATA
1998
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Dynamic Hierarchy of Intelligent Agents for Network Management
Routing as well as the management of communicationnetworks that support hybrid types of communications requiring quality of service is a very hard problem. We present here a frame...
Christian Frei, Boi Faltings
CONEXT
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
FairTorrent: bringing fairness to peer-to-peer systems
Peer-to-Peer file-sharing applications suffer from a fundamental problem of unfairness. Free-riders cause slower download times for others by contributing little or no upload band...
Alex Sherman, Jason Nieh, Clifford Stein
IJCAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Sequential Bundle-Bid Single-Sale Auction Algorithms for Decentralized Control
We study auction-like algorithms for the distributed allocation of tasks to cooperating agents. To reduce the team cost of sequential single-item auction algorithms, we generalize...
Sven Koenig, Craig A. Tovey, Xiaoming Zheng, Ilgaz...
EDBT
2000
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Performance and Availability Assessment for the Configuration of Distributed Workflow Management Systems
Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even "virtual-enterprise"-style business processes across multiple organi...
Michael Gillmann, Jeanine Weißenfels, Gerhar...