A decision support system for the management of an intermodal container terminal is presented. Among the problems to be solved, there are the spatial allocation of containers on t...
Luca Maria Gambardella, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli, Mar...
The required real-time and high-rate transfers for multimedia data severely limit the number of requests that can be serviced concurrently by Video-on-Demand (VOD) servers. Resour...
Various studies have shown that OS jitter can degrade parallel program performance considerably at large processor counts. Most sources of system jitter fall broadly into 5 catego...
In a distributed heterogeneous computing system, the resources have different capabilities and tasks have different requirements. To maximize the performance of the system, it is ...
Jong-Kook Kim, Sameer Shivle, Howard Jay Siegel, A...
The task management is a key point in grid applications and can highly influence their efficiency. There are many solutions that we can classify according to their centralizatio...