Multi-core processors have changed the conventional hardware structure and require a rethinking of system scheduling and resource management to utilize them efficiently. However, ...
Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
Keyword search in relational databases has been extensively studied. Given a relational database, a keyword query finds a set of interconnected tuple structures connected by fore...
In order to achieve practical efficient execution on a parallel architecture, a knowledge of the data dependencies related to the application appears as the key point for building...
Abstract--The provision of Quality of Service in Grid environments is still an open issue that needs attention from the research community. One way of contributing to the provision...