This article considers a stochastic vehicle routing problem with probability constraints. The that customers are served before their (uncertain) deadlines must be higher than pre-specified target. It is unrealistic to expect the perfect knowledge on distributions of always available. To this end, we propose distributionally robust optimisation framework study worst bounds problem, which exploit...

Cloud service providers acquire the computing resources and allocate them to their clients. To effectively utilize achieve higher user satisfaction, efficient task scheduling algorithms play a very pivotal role. A number of technique have been proposed in literature. However, majority these fail resource utilization that causes miss tasks deadlines. This is because are not deadline-aware. In th...

Task allocation is a key problem, which has a direct influence on the system performance in all kinds of distributed systems. This paper focuses on a specific kind of task allocation in swarm robotic systems, where the tasks are associated with specific time constraints. The paper presents a self-organized task allocation strategy, which aims to assign robot swarms to time-constrained tasks in ...

In this paper we deal with a variant of the Job Shop Scheduling Problem. We consider the addition of release dates and deadlines to be met by all jobs. The objective is makespan minimization if there are no tardy jobs, and tardiness minimization otherwise. The problem is approached by using a Shifting Bottleneck strategy. The presence of deadlines motivates an iterative use of a particular one ...

Limitations to operational weather forecasts exist in terms of availability computer (and human) resources combined with deadlines. For services it is therefore i...

In this paper we give an operational semantics for the real-time agent programming language AgentSpeak(RT). AgentSpeak(RT) was introduced in [21], and extends AgentSpeak(L) with deadlines and priorities for intentions. The version of AgentSpeak(RT) presented in this paper differs in certain aspects from that in [21], mainly to incorporate both hard and soft deadlines, and allow for the concurre...

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