Abstract--This paper seeks to understand how network failures affect the availability of service delivery across wide-area networks (WANs) and to evaluate classes of techniques for...
Bharat Chandra, Michael Dahlin, Lei Gao, Amol Naya...
High availability (HA) computing has recently gained much attention, especially in enterprise and mission critical systems. The HA is now a necessity that is no longer regarded as...
In a desktop grid model, the job (computational task) is submitted for execution in the resource only when the resource is idle. There is no guarantee that the job which has starte...
This paper considers a project scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing resource availability costs, taking into account a deadline for the project and precedence relat...
Although tremendous effort has been put into synthetic libraries, most drugs on the market are still 10 natural compounds or derivatives thereof. There are encyclopaedias of natur...