In this paper we define and provide a general construction for a class of policies we call dynamic policies. In most existing systems, policies are implemented and enforced by ch...
Prasad Naldurg, Roy H. Campbell, M. Dennis Mickuna...
Abstract-- Transactional memory has great potential for simplifying multithreaded programming by allowing programmers to specify regions of the program that must appear to execute ...
Grid computing relies on fragile partnerships. Clients with hundreds or even thousands of pending service requests must seek out and form temporary alliances with remote servers e...
—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...