Abstract. As grids typically consist of autonomously managed subsystems with strongly varying resources, fault-tolerance forms an important aspect of the scheduling process of appl...
Maria Chtepen, Filip H. A. Claeys, Bart Dhoedt, Fi...
Abstract. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) finds use in numerous applications involving item identification and tracking. In a typical application, RFID tags are attached t...
We study a discrete problem of scheduling activities of several types under the constraint that at most a single activity can be scheduled to any one period. Applications of such ...
— Cloud computing has gained significant traction in recent years. The Map-Reduce framework is currently the most dominant programming model in cloud computing settings. In this ...
The increasing popularity in the late 1970s of affordable, general-purpose, microprocessor-based personal computers in the US, generated a widespread interest around the world in t...