In distributed resource allocation a set of agents must assign their resources to a set of tasks. This problem arises in many real-world domains such as disaster rescue, hospital scheduling and the domain described in this paper: distributed sensor networks. Despite the variety of approaches proposed for distributed resource allocation, a systematic formalization of the problem and a general so...

Modern transportation problems are highly dynamic and time critical. A planning system for transportation problems must therefore include efficient and flexible planning and replanning strategies. In this paper we introduce a general agent-based framework for highly dynamic order-based transportation planning problems where a tactical planner and several operational planners (one for each trans...

In this paper, we propose a game-theoretic solution to the problem of distributed resource allocation in emerging horizontal dynamic cloud federation (HDCF) platform. It differs from the existing vertical supply chain federation (VSCF) models in terms of establishing federation and dynamic pricing. We study two resource allocation games non cooperative and cooperative games to analyze interacti...

Resource allocation, a problem of increasing importance in control theory (Murray, 2003), involves splitting some quantity and dedicating appropriate proportions of it to optimize some quantity of interest. In “dynamic resource allocation,” allocations are inputs to dynamical system and its response determines the quality of the allocation. For this, feedback information is typically used to re...

In this paper, a novel initial videos allocation scheme and a dynamic load balancing strategy are proposed for a distributed video storage server in order to increase the availability and reduce operation cost. The initial allocation scheme determines the allocation of video replicas on the servers to achieve static load balance and to obtain a configuration for efficient dynamic load adjustmen...

Shortening project duration is critical to product development project success in many industries. As a primary driver of progress and an effective management tool, resource allocation among development activities can strongly influence project duration. Effective allocation is difficult due to the inherent closed loop flow of development work and the dynamic demand patterns of work backlogs. T...

Efficient dynamic resource provisioning algorithms are necessary to the development and automation of Quality of Service (QoS) networks. The main goal of these algorithms is to offer services that satisfy the QoS requirements of individual users while guaranteeing at the same time an efficient utilization of network resources. In this paper we introduce a new service model that provides per-flo...

A detailed understanding of the many facets of the Internet’s topological structure is critical for evaluating the performance of networking protocols, for assessing the effectiveness of proposed techniques to protect the network from nefarious intrusions and attacks, or for developing improved designs for resource provisioning. In this way Available bandwidth estimation is a vital component of...