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The paper contains an extension of a formal model of multi-agent computing system developed in previous publications towards considering a more general system state. We provide also some deeper details of the model in the case of a homogeneous hardware environment. The model provides us with a precise definition of the optimal task scheduling together with results on the existence and characterization of optimal scheduling strategies.
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Smołka, M. (2008). A Formal Model of Multi-agent Computations. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K., Wasniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4967. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68111-3_37
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