—Large scale production grids are a major case for autonomic computing. Following the classical definition of Kephart, an autonomic computing system should optimize its own beha...
Real-time data services can benefit data-intensive real-time applications, e.g., e-commerce, via timely transaction processing using fresh data, e.g., the current stock prices. T...
Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
Bioinformatics algorithms such as sequence alignment methods based on profile-HMM (Hidden Markov Model) are popular but CPU-intensive. If large amounts of data are processed, a s...
Heinz Stockinger, Marco Pagni, Lorenzo Cerutti, La...
The CVS (Concurrent Versions System) software is a popular method for recording modifications to data objects, in addition to concurrent access to data in a multi-user environmen...