In highly interactive multimedia applications startup latency is significant, and may negatively impact performance and Quality of Service (QoS). To avoid this, our approach is t...
Matthias Friedrich, Silvia Hollfelder, Karl Aberer
Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and serv...
Resource management is a fundamental concept in operating system design. In recent years it has become fashionable to consider the problem as an aspect of heterogeneous support fo...
Temporal workflow management is important for processes that are time-driven. Claim handling, which requires the documentation, diagnosis, and resolution of customer claims due to...
Abstract. A metacomputing environment is a collection of geographically distributed resources (people, computers, devices, databases) connected by one or more high-speed networks, ...
Adam Ferrari, Frederick Knabe, Marty Humphrey, Ste...