Abstract We study how the average performance of a system degrades as the load nears its peak capacity. We restrict our attention to the performance measures of average sojourn tim...
Suppose we have a parallel or distributed system whose nodes have limited capacities, such as processing speed, bandwidth, memory, or disk space. How does the performance of the s...
Motivated by the optimality of Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) for mean response time, in recent years many computer systems have used the heuristic of "favoring sm...
In this paper we describe the design, implementation and experimental evaluation of a technique for operating system schedulers called processor pool-based scheduling [51]. Our tec...
: We present several quality criteria for skills management initiatives based on the competence-performance approach [Kor97]. The criteria help to measure reliability and validity ...