—This paper describes a study of predicting machine availabilities and user presence in a pool of desktop computers. The study is based on historical traces collected from 32 mac...
This paper introduces the Increasing Nvalue constraint, which restricts the number of distinct values assigned to a sequence of variables so that each variable in the sequence is l...
Nicolas Beldiceanu, Fabien Hermenier, Xavier Lorca...
Infrastructure management offices plan and complete several thousand small construction projects annually. Effective planning is vital if the public and private sectors are to mai...
With the wide-spread popularity of the World-Wide Web (WWW), network and server load increases dramatically. Caching proxies have been introduced to improve the system performance...
Ka Lun Eddie Law, Biswajit Nandy, A. S. J. Chapman
- Load balancing is a crucial issue in parallel and distributed systems to ensure fast processing and optimum utilization of computing resources. Load balancing strategies try to e...