In many distributed computing paradigms, especially sensor networks and ubiquitous computing but also grid computing and web services, programmers commonly tie their application to...
Jonathan J. Davies, Alastair R. Beresford, Alan My...
Dynamically allocating computing nodes to parallel applications is a promising technique for improving the utilization of cluster resources. We introduce the concept of dynamic ef...
In Autonomic Computing, an application needs to be aware of its environment. While the term "environment" is not normally understood as being a physical environment, in ...
To reduce cloud system resource cost, application consolidation is a must. In this paper, we present a novel patterndriven application consolidation (PAC) system to achieve efficie...
Pervasive computing applications are increasingly leveraging contextual information from several sources to provide users with behavior appropriate to the environment in which the...