Large distributed Grid systems pose new challenges in job scheduling due to complex workload characteristics and system characteristics. Due to the numerous parameters that must b...
The literature on programming sensor networks has focused so far on g higher-level abstractions for expressing local node behavior. Kairos is a natural next step in sensor network ...
—By building a P2P Content Distribution Network (CDN), peers collaborate to distribute the content of underprovisionned websites and to serve queries for larger audiences on beha...
This paper addresses the problem of fine-grained data replication in large distributed systems, such as the Internet, so as to minimize the user access delays. With fine-grained d...
The fitness landscape of the resource constrained project scheduling problem is investigated by examining the search space position type distribution and the correlation between t...