When users' tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment (e.g., cluster of heterogeneous computers) are allocated resources, the total demand placed on some sys...
Jong-Kook Kim, Debra A. Hensgen, Taylor Kidd, Howa...
Near-Video-On-Demand (NVOD) entails the provision of viewing flexibility that approaches that of VOD to an unlimited number of viewers of a "hot" movie at afixed cost to...
This paper addresses the problem of generating conflict-free periodic train timetables for large railway networks. We follow a two level approach, where a simplified track topolo...
Gabrio Curzio Caimi, Martin Fuchsberger, Marco Lau...
: DQ metadata can be stored in a Metadata Repository (MDR). The structure of the MDR should be carefully defined to ensure a maximum amount of flexibility, generality and ease of u...
David Becker, William McMullen, Kevin Hetherington...
Accounting for the perceiving conditions that make up the delivery environment of an application helps improve the efficiency of QoS provisioning systems. It is useless to transmi...