Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
—The problem of finding efficient workload distribution techniques is becoming increasingly important today for heterogeneous distributed systems where the availability of comp...
Vladimir Shestak, Edwin K. P. Chong, Anthony A. Ma...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are composed of a distributed collection of peers that cooperate in order to perform some common task. Though P2P applications have attrac...
This paper introduces a new kind of mosaic, called Jigsaw Image Mosaic (JIM), where image tiles of arbitrary shape are used to compose the final picture. The generation of a Jigsa...
Grid computing offers a promising approach to solving challenging computational problems in an environment consisting of a large number of easily accessible resources. In this pape...