A d-interval is the union of d disjoint intervals on the real line. A d-track interval is the union of d disjoint intervals on d disjoint parallel lines called tracks, one interval...
We introduce and evaluate a middleware clustering technology capable of allocating resources to web applications through dynamic application instance placement. We define applicat...
A. Karve, Tracy Kimbrel, Giovanni Pacifici, Mike S...
Strategies are developed for “fattening” the tasks of computation-dags so as to accommodate the heterogeneity of remote clients in Internet-based computing (IC). Earlier work ...
— In autonomic provisioning, a resource manager allocates resources to an application, on-demand, e.g., during load spikes. Modelling-based approaches have proved very successful...
Constraint satisfaction has been applied with great success in closed-world scenarios, where all options and constraints are known from the beginning and fixed. With the internet,...