We define some interesting incentive issues that arise in the management of virtual infrastructures. We demonstrate that participants’ decisions about the quantities of infrast...
Fine-Grained Cycle Sharing (FGCS) systems aim at utilizing the large amount of idle computational resources available on the Internet. Such systems allow guest jobs to run on a ho...
: - In this paper we address two problems, for which we present novel, efficient, algorithmic solutions. The first problem is motivated by practical situations and is concerned wit...
Development of portable network-aware applications demands an interface to the network that allows an application to obtain information about its execution environment. This paper...
Bruce Lowekamp, Nancy Miller, Dean Sutherland, Tho...
This paper makes the case that operating system designs for sensor networks should focus on the coordination of resource management decisions across the network, rather than merel...
Jason Waterman, Geoffrey Werner Challen, Matt Wels...