An increasing number of enterprises outsource their IT services to third parties who can offer these services for a much lower cost due to economy of scale. Quality of service is ...
System design complexity is growing rapidly. As a result, current development costs are constantly increasing. It is becoming increasingly difficult to estimate how much time it ...
Cyrus Bazeghi, Francisco J. Mesa-Martinez, Brian G...
In a buyer-supplier game, a special type of assignment game, a distinguished player, called the buyer, wishes to purchase some combinatorial structure. A set of players, called sup...
A challenging issue facing Grid communities is that while Grids can provide access to many heterogeneous resources, the resources to which access is provided often do not match th...
Ian T. Foster, Timothy Freeman, Katarzyna Keahey, ...
Organisations may wish to use a standards-defined distributed system in a global sense but also have a requirement for non-standard local behaviour. This reflects the production...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...