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Taking Email to Task: The Design and Evaluation of a Task Management Centered Email Tool

by Victoria Bellotti, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Mark Howard, Ian Smith , 2003
"... Email has come to play a central role in task management, yet email tool features have remained relatively static in recent years, lagging behind users ’ evolving practices. The Taskmaster system narrows this gap by recasting email as task management and embedding task-centric resources directly in ..."
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Email has come to play a central role in task management, yet email tool features have remained relatively static in recent years, lagging behind users ’ evolving practices. The Taskmaster system narrows this gap by recasting email as task management and embedding task-centric resources directly

Taskmaster: recasting email as task management

by Victoria Bellotti, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Mark Howard, Ian Smith
"... Email has come to play a central role in task management, yet email tool features have remained relatively static in recent years, lagging behind users ’ evolving practices. The Taskmaster system narrows this gap by recasting email as task management and embedding task-centric resources directly in ..."
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Email has come to play a central role in task management, yet email tool features have remained relatively static in recent years, lagging behind users ’ evolving practices. The Taskmaster system narrows this gap by recasting email as task management and embedding task-centric resources directly

Sold!: Auction Methods for Multirobot Coordination

by Brian P. Gerkey, Maja J. Mataric , 2002
"... The key to utilizing the potential of multirobot systems is cooperation. How can we achieve cooperation in systems composed of failure-prone autonomous robots operating in noisy, dynamic environments? In this paper, we present a novel method of dynamic task allocation for groups of such robots. We i ..."
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implemented and tested an auction-based task allocation system which we call MURDOCH, built upon a principled, resource centric, publish /subscribe communication model. A variant of the Contract Net Protocol, MURDOCH produces a distributed approximation to a global optimum of resource usage. We validated

Bandwidth-Centric Allocation of Independent Tasks on Heterogeneous Platforms

by Olivier Beaumont, Larry Carter, Jeanne Ferrante, Arnaud Legrand, Yves Robert - In International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’2002). IEEE Computer , 2001
"... In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating a large number of independent, equalsized tasks to a heterogenerous "grid" computing platform. Such problems arise in collaborative computing eorts like SETI@home. We use a tree to model a grid, where resources can have dierent speeds ..."
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In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating a large number of independent, equalsized tasks to a heterogenerous "grid" computing platform. Such problems arise in collaborative computing eorts like SETI@home. We use a tree to model a grid, where resources can have dierent

Gaia: A Middleware Infrastructure to Enable Active Spaces

by Manuel Román, Christopher Hess, Renato Cerqueira, Roy H. Campbell, Klara Nahrstedt - IEEE Pervasive Computing , 2002
"... We envision a future where people’s living spaces are interactive and programmable. Users interact with their offices, homes, cars, malls and airports to request information, benefit from the resources available, and configure the habitat’s behavior. Data and tasks are always accessible and are mapp ..."
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We envision a future where people’s living spaces are interactive and programmable. Users interact with their offices, homes, cars, malls and airports to request information, benefit from the resources available, and configure the habitat’s behavior. Data and tasks are always accessible

Harnessing Grid Resources with Data-Centric Task Farms

by Ioan Raicu , 2007
"... As the size of scientific data sets and the resources required for analysis increase, data locality becomes crucial to the efficient use of large scale distributed systems for scientific and data-intensive applications. In order to support interactive analysis of large quantities of data in many sci ..."
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an abstract model for data-centric task farms as a common parallel pattern that drives the independent computational tasks, taking into consideration the data locality in order to optimize the performance of the analysis of large datasets. This approach can provide the benefits of dedicated hardware without

Autonomous Protocols for Bandwidth-Centric Schedulingof Independent-task Applications Barbara Kreaseck

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"... Advances in network and middleware technologies havebrought computing with many widely-distributed and heterogeneous resources to the forefront, both in the con-text of Grid Computing [14, 15] and of Internet Computing [32, 12, 37]. These large distributed platforms allow ..."
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Advances in network and middleware technologies havebrought computing with many widely-distributed and heterogeneous resources to the forefront, both in the con-text of Grid Computing [14, 15] and of Internet Computing [32, 12, 37]. These large distributed platforms allow

Portlets for User Centric Job and Task Monitoring for Open Science Grid Virtual Organizations

by D Alex, R Pundaleeka, S Tramer
"... Organizations in the Open Science Grid are motivated to provide services so that individual scientists can effectively execute data analysis jobs and take advantage of Grid resources. For success, these scientists will need to be able to monitor the execution status and application-level messages of ..."
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for the larger organizations that can afford to build their own tools. The User Centric Monitoring project addresses this gap by targeting a novel complete set of user-centric information including the status of a task of submitted jobs, queue positions, times of the start and finish, output and error messages

Task-Level Probabilistic Scheduling Guarantees for Dependable Real-Time Systems -A Designer Centric Approach

by Hüseyin Aysan , Radu Dobrin , Sasikumar Punnekkat
"... Abstract-Dependable real-time systems typically consist of tasks of mixed-criticality levels with associated fault tolerance (FT) requirements and scheduling them in a fault-tolerant manner to efficiently satisfy these requirements is a challenging problem. From the designers' perspective, the ..."
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, the most natural way to specify the task criticalities is by expressing the reliability requirements at task level, without having to deal with low level decisions, such as deciding on which FT method to use, where in the system to implement the FT and the amount of resources to be dedicated to the FT

Balancing Risk and Reward in a Market-based Task Service

by David E. Irwin, Laura E. Grit , 2004
"... This paper investigates the question of scheduling tasks according to a user-centric value metric—called yield or utility. User value is an attractive basis for allocating shared computing resources, and is fundamental to economic approaches to resource management in linked clusters or grids. Even s ..."
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This paper investigates the question of scheduling tasks according to a user-centric value metric—called yield or utility. User value is an attractive basis for allocating shared computing resources, and is fundamental to economic approaches to resource management in linked clusters or grids. Even
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