Supporting Web-based services through geographical distributed clusters of servers is a common solution to the increasing volume and variability of modern traffic. These architec...
Mauro Andreolini, Sara Casolari, Michele Colajanni
Distributed software environments are increasingly complex and difficult to manage, as they integrate various legacy software with proprietary management interfaces. Moreover, th...
Sara Bouchenak, Noel De Palma, Daniel Hagimont, Ch...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...
It is envisaged that the grid infrastructure will be a large-scale distributed software system that will provide high-end computational and storage capabilities to differentiated ...
Junwei Cao, Daniel P. Spooner, James D. Turner, St...