@inproceedings{xie:scheduling,
    author = {Rong Xie and Daniela Rus and Cliff Stein},
    title = {Scheduling Multi-Task Agents},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile
Agents},
    year = {2001},
    month = {December},
    series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
    volume = {2240},
    pages = {260--276},
    publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
    copyright = {Springer-Verlag},
    address = {Atlanta, Georgia},
    group = {agents, coabs, cmc},
    earlier = {rus:scheduling},
    url = {http://agent.cs.dartmouth.edu/papers/xie:scheduling.ps.gz},
    urlpdf = {http://agent.cs.dartmouth.edu/papers/xie: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 with the objective of
minimizing the overall application completion time. Each agent consists of
multiple tasks that can be executed on multiple machines which correspond to
resources. The machine speeds and link transfer rates are heterogeneous. Our
centralized algorithm has an upper bound on the overall completion time and
is used as a module in the distributed algorithm. Extensive simulations show
promising results of the algorithms, especially for scheduling
communication-intensive multi-task agents.}
}