In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...
Existing real-time research focuses on how to formulate, model and enforce timeliness guarantees for task sets whose correctness has a temporal aspect. However, the resulting syst...
Claude-Joachim Hamann, Michael Roitzsch, Lars Reut...
We consider the use of a cluster of PC servers for Application Service Providers where applications and databases must remain autonomous. We use data replication to improve data av...
Due to their increasing complexity, design of software systems is not becoming easier. Furthermore, modern applications ranging from enterprise to embedded systems require very hig...
This paper studies the QoS-aware replica placement problem. Although there has been much work on replica placement problem, most of them concerns average system performance and ign...