IIE Transactions, November 1st, 2004
This paper studies task allocation in computational grids operating in a dynamic and uncertain environment. Computational grids consist of loosely coupled heterogeneous resources or agents with finite buffer capacities. These grids are primarily used to process large-scale applications consisting of several interdependent tasks. The task allocation problem is modeled as an infinite horizon Markov decision process, with the resource service times and the task arrivals following general probability distributions. We explicitly consider the communication cost between agents incurred in coordinati...
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