@inproceedings{rus:scheduling,
    author = {Daniela Rus and Clifford Stein and Rong Xie},
    title = {Scheduling Multi-task Multi-agent Systems},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Autonomous
Agents},
    year = {2001},
    pages = {159--160},
    publisher = {ACM Press},
    copyright = {ACM},
    group = {agents, coabs, cmc},
    note = {Poster abstract},
    later = {xie:scheduling},
    url = {http://cmc.cs.dartmouth.edu/papers/rus:scheduling.pdf},
    keyword = {mobile agent, scheduling, resource allocation},
    abstract = {We present a centralized and a distributed algorithm for
scheduling multi-task agents in a distributed system. Each agent consists of
multiple tasks that can be executed on multiple machines which correspond to
resources. The machines in the system have different speeds. There are
different communication delays and data transfer delays. We optimize the
overall completion time. Our centralized algorithm has an upper bound on the
overall completion time and is used as a module in the distributed algorithm.
We present extensive simulation results.}
}