We describe a decentralized, adaptive mechanism for replica location in wide-area distributed systems. Unlike traditional, hierarchical (e.g, DNS) and more recent (e.g., CAN, Chor...
Abstract. The DEFACTO project - a Design Environment For Adaptive Computing TechnOlogy - is a system that maps computations, expressed in high-level languages such as C, directly o...
Pedro C. Diniz, Mary W. Hall, Joonseok Park, Byoun...
Fifteen teams recently used the WinWin Spiral Model to perform the system engineering and architecting of a set of multimedia applications for the USC Library Information Systems....
Barry W. Boehm, Alexander Egyed, Julie Kwan, Raymo...
When designing SAMGrid, a project for distributing high-energy physics computations on a grid, we discovered that it was challenging to decide where to place user's jobs. Job...
A. Baranovski, Gabriele Garzoglio, Igor Terekhov, ...
The max k-armed bandit problem is a recently-introduced online optimization problem with practical applications to heuristic search. Given a set of k slot machines, each yielding p...