Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. Main reasons for batching are avoidance of setups and/or facilitation of material handling. Bat...
Situational information can enrich the interactions between a user and the services they wish to utilize. Such information encompasses details about the user, the physical environ...
—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...
—In this paper, we present a distributed algorithm to dynamically allocate the available resources of a service-oriented network to delay sensitive network services. We use a uti...
Michael G. Kallitsis, Robert D. Callaway, Michael ...
In a Distributed Database System (DDBS), transactions on objects can be read requests or write requests in a random manner. The replication algorithm of objects critically affects...