Virtual machine monitors, especially when used for server consolidation, need to enforce a predefined sharing of resources among the running virtual machines. We propose a new me...
Abstract. Provisioning extra resources is necessary when the local resources are not sufficient to meet the user requirements. Commercial Cloud providers offer the extra resources...
Abstract. We apply three different modeling frameworks -- timed automata (Uppaal), colored Petri nets and synchronous data flow -- to model a challenging industrial case study that...
Georgeta Igna, Venkatesh Kannan, Yang Yang, Twan B...
We define reactive simulatability for general asynchronous systems. Roughly, simulatability means that a real system implements an ideal system (specification) in a way that pre...
Users often behave speculatively, submitting work that initially they do not know is needed. Farm computing often consists of single node speculative tasks issued by, e.g., bioinf...