Self-managing systems able to dynamically re-configure with respect to time-varying workload mixes and changing system resource availability are of growing importance in heterogen...
Alois Ferscha, James Johnson, Gabriele Kotsis, Cos...
Abstract. Provisioning extra resources is necessary when the local resources are not sufficient to meet the user requirements. Commercial Cloud providers offer the extra resources...
Historically, high performance systems use schedulers and intelligent resource managers in order to optimize system usage and application performance. Most of the times, applicatio...
This paper discusses the problem of content adaptation for mobile devices. The adaptation considers the context of the client and also the environment where the client request is ...
In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...