Flexible procurement of services with uncertain durations using redundancy

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 292-298

  Stein, Sebastian ^a   Gerding, Enrico ^a   Rogers, Alex ^a   Larson, Kate ^b   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

APPLICATION SCENARIO; COMPLEX TASK; DISTRIBUTED SERVICE; OVER CURRENT; REDUNDANT SERVICES; SERVICE COSTS; SERVICE ORIENTED; SERVICE PROVIDER;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 78751685380     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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