— In large-scale distributed execution environments such as multicluster systems and grids, resource availability may vary due to resource failures and because resources may be a...
Jeremy Buisson, Omer Ozan Sonmez, Hashim H. Mohame...
Numerous Grids have been created during the last years. Most of these Grids work in isolation and with different utilisation levels. As the resource utilisation within a Grid has ...
Recently, industry has begun investigating and moving towards utility computing, where computational resources (processing, memory and I/O) are availably on demand at a market cos...
—A key benefit of utility data centers and cloud computing infrastructures is the level of consolidation they can offer to arbitrary guest applications, and the substantial savi...
Mukil Kesavan, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Kar...
Abstract. The success of recent Web 2.0 platforms shows that people share information and resources within their social community and beyond. The use of these platforms in an e-lea...
Fabian Abel, Ivana Marenzi, Wolfgang Nejdl, Sergej...
Abstract—In large distributed systems, where shared resources are owned by distinct entities, there is a need to reflect resource ownership in resource allocation. An appropriat...
Jose Nelson Falavinha Junior, Aleardo Manacero Jun...
Abstract—In future massively distributed service-based computational systems, resources will span many locations, organisations and platforms. In such systems, the ability to all...
We consider a dynamic load balancing scenario in which users allocate resources in a non-cooperative and selfish fashion. The perceived performance of a resource for a user decre...
Heiner Ackermann, Simon Fischer, Martin Hoefer, Ma...