—Virtualized cloud-based services can take advantage of statistical multiplexing across applications to yield significant cost savings to the operator. However, achieving simila...
GridXSLT is an implementation of the XSLT programming language designed for distributed web service orchestration. Based on the functional semantics of the language, it compiles p...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
Emerging large scale utility computing systems like Grids promise computing and storage to be provided to end users as a utility. System management services deployed in the middle...
— Efficient network provisioning mechanisms that support service differentiation and automatic capacity dimensioning are essential to the realization of the Differentiated Servi...
We study large-scale service systems with multiple customer classes and many statistically identical servers. The following question is addressed: How many servers are required (s...