In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...
Database storage managers have long been able to efficiently handle multiple concurrent requests. Until recently, however, a computer contained only a few single-core CPUs, and th...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Nikos Hardavellas...
Advances in multiprocessor interconnect technologyare leading to high performance networks. However, software overheadsassociated with message passing are limiting the processors ...
Debashis Basak, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Mohammad Ban...
In computer systems today, speed and responsiveness is often determined by network and storage subsystem performance. Faster, more scalable networking interfaces like Fibre Channe...
Kenneth W. Preslan, Andrew P. Barry, Jonathan Bras...
It is essential that a monitoring system is being designed with performance and scalability in mind. But due to the diversity and complexity of both the monitoring and the monitore...