Power transformers' failures carry great costs to electric companies since they need resources to recover from them and to perform periodical maintenance. To avoid this probl...
Middleware has emerged as an important architectural component in supporting distributed applications. With the expanding role of middleware, however, a number of problems are emer...
Abstract. The development and deployment of middleware and applications in a grid environment spread over many institutions is a complex challenge. The management of the developmen...
Emerging large scale utility computing systems like Grids promise computing and storage to be provided to end users as a utility. System management services deployed in the middle...
When users' tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment (e.g., cluster of heterogeneous computers) are allocated resources, the total demand placed on some sys...
Jong-Kook Kim, Debra A. Hensgen, Taylor Kidd, Howa...