Self-organized task allocation for computing systems with reconfigurable components

20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Merkle, Daniel ^a   Middendorf, Martin ^a   Scheidler, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTING SYSTEMS; RECONFIGURABLE COMPONENTS; SERVICE TASK ACCEPTANCE; STIMULUS-THRESHOLD MODELS; TASK ALLOCATION;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 33847108595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2006.1639528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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