Embedded systems must be cost-effective. This imposes strict requirements on the resource consumption of their applications. It is therefore desirable to be able to determine the ...
Many large-scale utility computing infrastructures comprise heterogeneous hardware and software resources. This raises the need for scalable resource selection services, which ide...
Paolo Costa, Jeff Napper, Guillaume Pierre, Maarte...
One of the most challenging problems in Grid environments concerns the matchmaking between resource requests and offers. As it happens in the physical economy, Grid economy must b...
Konstantinos Kotis, George A. Vouros, Alexandros G...
Distributed applications require distributed techniques for efficient resource allocation. These techniques need to take into account the heterogeneity and potential unreliability...
The challenges faced by mobile and distributed applications include the ability to discover and negotiate for the resources required for execution. The NOMAD (Negotiated Object Mo...