Scientific workflows play an important role in today’s science. Many disciplines rely on workflow technologies to orchestrate the execution of thousands of computational tasks. ...
This paper analyzes the effect of overbooking for scheduling systems in a commercial environment. In this scenario each job is associated with a release time and a finishing deadl...
Traditional programming languages are algorithmic: they are best suited to writing programs that acquire all their inputs before executing and only produce a result on termination...
Dynamic scripting languages offer programmers increased flexibility by allowing properties of programs to be defined at run-time. Typically, program execution begins with an int...
Distributed applications execute in environments that can include different network architectures as well as a range of compute platforms. Furthermore, these resources are shared ...