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CCGRID
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Availability Prediction Based Replication Strategies for Grid Environments
Volunteer-based grid computing resources are characteristically volatile and frequently become unavailable due to the autonomy that owners maintain over them. This resource volati...
Brent Rood, Michael J. Lewis
ISAAC
2010
Springer
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13 years 5 months ago
A Tighter Analysis of Work Stealing
Abstract. Classical list scheduling is a very popular and efficient technique for scheduling jobs in parallel platforms. However, with the increasing number of processors, the cost...
Marc Tchiboukdjian, Nicolas Gast, Denis Trystram, ...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A method for transparent admission control and request scheduling in e-commerce web sites
This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved res...
Sameh Elnikety, Erich M. Nahum, John M. Tracey, Wi...
AAAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Iterative Flattening: A Scalable Method for Solving Multi-Capacity Scheduling Problems
One challenge for research in constraint-based scheduling has been to produce scalable solution procedures under fairly general representational assumptions. Quite often, the comp...
Amedeo Cesta, Angelo Oddi, Stephen F. Smith
CP
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Dimensioning an Inbound Call Center Using Constraint Programming
One of the critical problems in the call center industries is the staffing problem since they must face variable demands and because staff costs represent a major part of the cost...
Cyril Canon, Jean-Charles Billaut, Jean-Louis Bouq...