Abstract. Scheduling the execution of multiple concurrent tasks on shared resources such as CPUs and network links is essential to ensuring the reliable operation of many autonomic...
Terry Tidwell, Robert Glaubius, Christopher D. Gil...
ABSTRACT { Sub-micron technologies and the increasing size and complexity of integrated components have aggravated the eect of long interconnects and buses, compared to that of ga...
Users of MapReduce often run into performance problems when they scale up their workloads. Many of the problems they encounter can be overcome by applying techniques learned from ...
Avrilia Floratou, Jignesh M. Patel, Eugene J. Shek...
Given a service request such as scheduling an appointment or purchasing a product, it is possible that the invocation of the service results in too many solutions that all satisfy ...
In many applications, such as decision support, negotiation, planning, scheduling, etc., one needs to express requirements that can only be partially satisfied. In order to expres...