We consider a system with a dispatcher and several identical servers in parallel. Task processing times are known upon arrival. We first study the impact of the local scheduling ...
As the scale is expanding, node failure becomes a commonplace feature of large-scale cluster systems. As an important part of cluster operating system software, job scheduling tak...
Linping Wu, Dan Meng, Jianfeng Zhan, Wang Lei, Bib...
This paper proposes an approach to behaviour-based discovery of Web Services by which business rules that govern service behaviour are described as a policy. The policy is represen...
Many cryptographic schemes have been designed to enforce information flow policies. However, enterprise security requirements are often better encoded, or can only be encoded, usin...
We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...