Lee, Kangbok; Leung, Joseph Y.-T.; Pinedo, Michael L. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 220 (2012) 2, pp. 305-313
We consider coordination mechanisms for the distributed scheduling of n jobs on m parallel machines, where each agent holding a job selects a machine to process his/her own job. Without a central authority to construct a schedule, each agent acts selfishly to minimize his/her own disutility,...