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,...
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...
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, ...
While students' skill set profiles can be estimated with formal cognitive diagnosis models [8], their computational complexity makes simpler proxy skill estimates attractive [...
— 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...