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WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient resource allocation and power saving in multi-tiered systems
In this paper, we present Fastrack, a parameter-free algorithm for dynamic resource provisioning that uses simple statistics to promptly distill information about changes in workl...
Andrew Caniff, Lei Lu, Ningfang Mi, Ludmila Cherka...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
A unified modeling framework for distributed resource allocation of general fork and join processing networks
This paper addresses the problem of distributed resource allocation in general fork and join processing networks. The problem is motivated by the complicated processing requiremen...
Haiquan (Chuck) Zhao, Cathy H. Xia, Zhen Liu, Dona...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Topology-aware resource allocation for data-intensive workloads
This paper proposes an architecture for optimized resource allocation in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)-based cloud systems. Current IaaS systems are usually unaware of the ho...
Gunho Lee, Niraj Tolia, Parthasarathy Ranganathan,...
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
14 years 17 days ago
The Effects of Untruthful Bids on User Utilities and Stability in Computing Markets
Markets of computing resources typically consist of a cluster (or a multi-cluster) and jobs that arrive over time and request computing resources in exchange for payment. In this p...
Sergei Shudler, Lior Amar, Amnon Barak, Ahuva Mu'a...
OSDI
1994
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Proportional-Share Resource Management
This paper presents lottery scheduling, a novel randomized resource allocation mechanism. Lottery scheduling provides efficient, responsive control over the relative execution rat...
Carl A. Waldspurger, William E. Weihl
ICMAS
1998
14 years 24 days ago
Implementation Issues on Market-Based QoS Control
In this paper, we discuss two major tradeoffs, spatial and temporal tradeoffs, that appear when applying marketbased computing to multimedia network applications. The former appea...
Hirofumi Yamaki, Yutaka Yamauchi, Toru Ishida
AAAI
2000
14 years 24 days ago
RealPlan: Decoupling Causal and Resource Reasoning in Planning
Recent work has demonstrated that treating resource reasoning separately from causal reasoning can lead to improved planning performance and rational resource management where inc...
Biplav Srivastava
IJCAI
2003
14 years 25 days ago
Towards Cooperative Negotiation for Decentralized Resource Allocation in Autonomic Computing Systems
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
MASCOTS
2004
14 years 25 days ago
A Framework for Resource Allocation in Grid Computing
Grid computing is the future computing paradigm for enterprise applications. An enterprise application running on a grid is composed of a set of SLA-constrained sub-tasks demandin...
Daniel A. Menascé, Emiliano Casalicchio
IJCAI
2007
14 years 26 days ago
Market Based Resource Allocation with Incomplete Information
Although there are some research efforts toward resource allocation in multi-agent systems (MAS), most of these work assume that each agent has complete information about other ag...
Bo An, Chunyan Miao, Zhiqi Shen