— We propose a novel approach for sharing cluster resources among competing jobs. The key advantage of our approach over current solutions is that it increases cluster utilizatio...
We consider a problem known as the restricted assignment version of the max-min allocation problem with indivisible goods. There are n items of various nonnegative values and m pl...
Network devices can filter traffic in order to protect end-user computers against network worms and other threats. Since these devices have very limited memories and cannot deploy ...
Real-world distributed systems and networks are often unreliable and subject to random failures of its components. Such a stochastic behavior affects adversely the complexity of o...
Broadcasting is an efficient and scalable way of transmitting data over wireless channels to an unlimited number of clients. In this paper the problem of allocating data to multip...
Paolo Barsocchi, Alan A. Bertossi, Maria Cristina ...