The increasing usage of smart embedded devices is blurring the line between the virtual and real worlds. This creates new opportunities for applications to better integrate the re...
The emerging paradigms of service oriented architectures and utility-based computing have the potential to greatly reduce the cost of data management. Data management service prov...
—Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of service provisioning. WS-Agreement1 is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both ...
K. P. Clark, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T. Brazie...
The large amount of energy consumed by Internet services represents significant and fast-growing financial and environmental costs. Increasingly, services are exploring dynamic ...
Kien Le, Ozlem Bilgir, Ricardo Bianchini, Margaret...
—In this paper, we propose two adaptive scheduling approaches to support real-time control applications with highly varying computation times. The use of a resource reservation s...