In this paper, a new I/O-aware load-balancing scheme is presented to improve overall performance of a distributed system with a general and practical workload including I/O activi...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
Dynamic, distributed, real-time systems control an environment that varies widely without any time-invariant statistical or deterministic characteristic, are spread across multiple...
Charles Cavanaugh, Lonnie R. Welch, Behrooz Shiraz...
We consider the El Farol bar problem, also known as the minority game W. B. Arthur, The American Economic Review, 842: 406 411 1994, D. Challet and Y.C. Zhang, Physica A, 256:514 ...
Abstract. We describe and model a new aspect in the design of distributed information systems. We build upon a previously described problem on the microlevel, which asks how quickl...
In this paper, we argue that the reliability of large-scale storage systems can be significantly improved by using better reliability metrics and more efficient policies for rec...