Production scheduling, the problem of sequentially con guring a factory to meet forecasted demands, is a critical problem throughout the manufacturing industry. The requirement of...
Jeff G. Schneider, Justin A. Boyan, Andrew W. Moor...
Abstract— We consider the problem of providing QoS guarantees to Grid users through advance reservation of resources. Advance reservation mechanisms provide the ability to alloca...
Claris Castillo, George N. Rouskas, Khaled Harfous...
Parallel database systems have to support the effective parallelization of complex queries in multi-user mode, i.e. in combination with inter-query/inter-transaction parallelism. ...
In high energy physics, bioinformatics, and other disciplines, we encounter applications involving numerous, loosely coupled jobs that both access and generate large data sets. So...
Abstract In this paper, we propose the use of a distributed service management architecture for state-of-the-art service-enabled Grids. The architecture is capable of performing au...
Bruno Volckaert, Pieter Thysebaert, Marc De Leenhe...