User models (UM)the explicit representation of all relevant aspects of a user's preferences, beliefs, etc. form the basis of virtually all adaptive systems. While early appro...
This paper addresses issues of task clustering-the coalition of several fine grain tasks into single coarser grain tasks called task clusters+md task cluster scheduling on distrib...
We consider an M/G/1 queueing system where the speed of the server depends on the amount of work present in the system. As a service policy, we adopt the PM , release policy in a ...
Clusters of workstations have emerged as a costeffective solution to high performance computing problem. To take advantage of any opportunities, however, effective scheduling tech...
Several native approaches to storing large XML data sets exist. In all of these approaches the internal data representation is designed to support any ad-hoc XQuery query. In this...