In addition to providing small mean response times, modern applications seek to provide users predictable service and, in some cases, Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees. In order...
We define the class of SMART scheduling policies. These are policies that bias towards jobs with small remaining service times, jobs with small original sizes, or both, with the ...
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter, Takayuki Osogami
In this paper we propose a fully distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) infrastructure supporting Networked Virtual Environment (NVE) applications, such as massively multiplayer online ga...
Page migration is one of the fundamental subproblems in the framework of data management in networks. It occurs in a distributed network of processors sharing one indivisible memo...
Marcin Bienkowski, Miroslaw Korzeniowski, Friedhel...
This paper is focused on the coordination of order and production policy between buyers and suppliers in supply chains. When a buyer and a supplier of an item work independently, ...