Software Agents

I thought I'd list down my major book sources, for software agents

Multiagent systems, Michael Wooldridge
http://coltech.vnu.edu.vn/httt/media/courses/AI++/Tai%20lieu/TLTK.pdf

And another book from where I learnt about
learning agents, reinforcement learning, policy algorithm, utility based and goal based agents,
the types of environments
accessible vs. non-accessible
deterministic vs. non-deterministic
static vs. dynamic
discrete vs. continuous
episodic vs. non-episodic

and other good concepts

Artificial Intelligence : A modern approach,
Stuart J. Russel, Peter Norvig
http://repo.hackerzvoice.net/depot_madchat/coding/ai/Artificial%20Intelligence%20-%20A%20Modern%20Approach.pdf

Bag of Tasks

I forgot where I read the characteristics of BoT workload...
so hard to keep track of what I read where...
RR · N
tasks, where N is the number of machines in the Grid (N = 185), and RR is a
numerical coefficient used to change the size of each bag.

The duration of each task is assumed to be a random variable uniformly distributed in the interval
[RT ∗0.5∗BaseTime,RT ∗1.5∗BaseTime] seconds, where BaseTime and RT are
workload parameters (note that the duration of tasks is referred to a machine
with computing power P = 1).

This is the characteristics as given by Sim Moon

I think I found the source of BoT's... my work for today is over...

On the efficacy, efficiency and emergent behavior of task replication in large distributed systems

Cirne et al

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016781910700004X