Often, parallel and distributed computing systems must operate in an environment replete with uncertainty. Determining a resource allocation that accounts for this uncertainty in ...
Vladimir Shestak, Jay Smith, Howard Jay Siegel, An...
In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...
Advance reservation of lightpaths in Grid environments is necessary to guarantee QoS and reliability. In this paper, we have evaluated and compared several algorithms for dynamic ...
Savera Tanwir, Lina Battestilli, Harry G. Perros, ...
Trust is an integral part of the Semantic Web architecture. Most prior work on trust focuses on entity-centered issues such as authentication and reputation and does not take into...
In this paper we study a fault tolerant model for Grid environments based on the task replication concept. The basic idea is to produce and submit to the Grid multiple replicas of ...