Volume 4, Number 1 January (2008)

Special Issue: Computational Intelligence In Scheduling and Simulation
Guest Lead Editor : Fatos Xhafa 

Guest Co-Editor: Yehui Chen

CONTENTS

Obtaining Performance Measures through Microbenchmarking in a Peer-to-Peer Overlay Computer

Paolo Bertasi, Mauro Biancoy, Andrea Pietracaprina, and Geppino Pucci

pp. 1-8  PDF Full Text

Forming and managing agent teams acting as resource brokers in the Grid — preliminary considerations

Wojciech Kuranowski, Maria Ganzha, Maciej Gawinecki, Marcin Paprzycki*, Ivan Lirkov, Svetozar Margenov 

pp. 9-16  PDF Full Text

A Survey of the State of the Art in Performance Modeling and Prediction of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems

Sabri Pllana, Ivona Brandic and Siegfried Benkner

pp. 17-26  PDF Full Text

A Starvation Free IMLFQ Scheduling Algorithm Based on Neural Network

Mohammad Reza Effat Parva, Mehdi Effat Parvar and Saeed Safari

pp. 27-36  PDF Full Text

A Task Scheduling Algorithm Based on PSO for Grid Computing

Lei Zhang, Yuehui Chen, Runyuan Sun, Shan Jing and Bo Yang

pp. 37-43  PDF Full Text

The Design and Dev elopment of a Multi-agent Agile Scheduling System

Zhanjie Wang, Xian Li and Xin Qi

pp. 45-52  PDF Full Text

A Novel Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Short-Term Scheduling of Batch Plants with Parallel Units

Jin Zhu, Xingsheng Gu, Bin Jiao

pp. 53-60  PDF Full Text

Permutation-based Particle Swarm Algorithm for Tasks Scheduling in Heterogeneous systems with Communication Delays

Xiaohong Kong, Jun Sun and Wenbo Xu 

pp. 61-70  PDF Full Text