In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...
In the context of mobile data access, data caching is fundamental for both performance and functionality. For this reason there have been many studies into developing energy-effi...
Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chry...
: Optimizers in modern DBMSs utilize a cost model to choose an efficient query execution plan (QEP) among all possible ones for a given query. The accuracy of the cost estimates de...
Stephan Ewen, Michael Ortega-Binderberger, Volker ...
The industrial districts are characterized by the agglomeration of medium and small-sized industries, localized within a certain geographic area with precise social and cultural c...
In this paper we investigate protocols for scheduling applications that consist of large numbers of identical, independent tasks on large-scale computing platforms. By imposing a ...
Barbara Kreaseck, Larry Carter, Henri Casanova, Je...