The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
—This paper studies the important interaction between parallelization and energy consumption in a parallelizable application. Given the ratio of serial and parallel portion in an...
Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in systems that are composed of multiple autonomous agents. The aim of such interactions is to reach agreements through an itera...
Peyman Faratin, Carles Sierra, Nicholas R. Jenning...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling concurrent jobs on clusters where application data is stored on the computing nodes. This setting, in which scheduling computations ...
Michael Isard, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Jon Currey, Ud...
With rapid technological advances in network infrastructure, programming languages, compatible component interfaces and so many more areas, today the computational Grid has evolve...