It is now commonplace for an organization to turn to external firms for the provision of IT services and software. As technology advances and the business environment continues to ...
— One of the major challenges in managing resources of computational Grids with diverse shared resources is how to meet users' QoS requirements and rationally distribute res...
Abstract. Motivated by previously identified user perceptual tolerance to varying multimedia Quality of Service (QoS), this paper shows that the Business to Customer (B2C) user ex...
More than ever, computing devices are becoming more powerful and networked, organizational boundaries are dissolving, and underlying information systems become more complex, thus r...
Abstract. The need for supporting CSCW applications with heterogeneous and varying user requirements calls for adaptive and reconfigurable schedulers accommodating a mixture of re...