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UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Cooperative Negotiation in Autonomic Systems using Incremental Utility Elicitation
Decentralized resource allocation is a key problem for large-scale autonomic (or self-managing) computing systems. Motivated by a data center scenario, we explore efficient techn...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
IEEECIT
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Developing a Cloud Computing Charging Model for High-Performance Computing Resources
Abstract—This paper examines the economics of cloud computing charging from the perspective of a supercomputing resource provider offering its own resources. To evaluate the comp...
Matthew Woitaszek, Henry M. Tufo
CORR
2010
Springer
173views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
An Approach to Ad hoc Cloud Computing
We consider how underused computing resources within an enterprise may be harnessed to improve utilization and create an elastic computing infrastructure. Most current cloud provi...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Angus Macdonald, ...
EDM
2010
129views Data Mining» more  EDM 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Skill Set Profile Clustering: The Empty K-Means Algorithm with Automatic Specification of Starting Cluster Centers
While students' skill set profiles can be estimated with formal cognitive diagnosis models [8], their computational complexity makes simpler proxy skill estimates attractive [...
Rebecca Nugent, Nema Dean, Elizabeth Ayers
WECWIS
2006
IEEE
144views ECommerce» more  WECWIS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Evaluation of Adaptive Computing Concepts for Classical ERP Systems and Enterprise Services
— To ensure the operability and reliability of large scale Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP), a peak-load oriented hardware sizing is often used. Better utilization can ...
Martin Wimmer, Valentin Nicolescu, Daniel Gmach, M...