Abstract. Due to the few computing resource planning options currently available in Grid computing, capacity planning, an old discipline for analyzing resource purchases, is simple...
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is nearing the completion of a high voltage transmission system designed to integrate the power systems of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar,...
Abstract—This paper examines the economics of cloud computing charging from the perspective of a supercomputing resource provider offering its own resources. To evaluate the comp...
In this paper we consider the problem of eCommerce comparison shopping agents (shopbots) that are limited by capacity constraints. In light of the phenomenal increase both in dema...