On-line decision making often involves query processing over time-varying data which arrives in the form of data streams from distributed locations. In such environments typically...
Open Source Software (OSS) has made great strides toward mainstream acceptance over the past two years. However, many IT managers, both in business and academia, are still cautiou...
Mike Davis, Will O'Donovan, John Fritz, Carlisle C...
This paper describes the Network-Attached Secure Disk (NASD) storage architecture, prototype implementations of NASD drives, array management for our architecture, and three files...
Garth A. Gibson, David Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Jeff B...
We consider a dynamic load balancing scenario in which users allocate resources in a non-cooperative and selfish fashion. The perceived performance of a resource for a user decre...
Heiner Ackermann, Simon Fischer, Martin Hoefer, Ma...
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...