Advances in Internet and the availability of powerful computers and high-speed networks have propitiated the rise of Grids. The scheduling of applications is complex in Grids due ...
User estimates of job runtimes have emerged as an important component of the workload on parallel machines, and can have a significant impact on how a scheduler treats different ...
The emergence of high-speed communication systems has enabled the support of complex multimedia applications. The traffic patterns generated by such applications are likely to be ...
Software estimation models should support managerial decision making in software projects. We experience that most of current models do not achieve this goal to the extend manager...
Priorities are used to resolve conflicts such as in resource sharing and in safety designs. The use of priorities has become indispensable in real-time system design such as in s...