Large distributed Grid systems pose new challenges in job scheduling due to complex workload characteristics and system characteristics. Due to the numerous parameters that must b...
Cooperative computing is becoming inevitable with the emerging of service-oriented computing and GRID becoming a ubiquitous computing resource. It is widely recognized that agent t...
Internet data centers (IDCs) perform multi-customer hosting on a virtualized collection of resources while Grid computing generalizes distributed computing by focusing on large sc...
In this paper, we present SmartCal, a calendar assistant that suggests appointment attributes, such as time, day, duration, etc., given any combination of initial user input attri...
Due to the complex nature of scientific workflow environments, temporal violations often take place and may severely reduce the timeliness of the execution’s results. To handle ...