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MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A multi-commodity flow approach to maximising utility in linked market-based grids
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...
James Broberg, Rajkumar Buyya
SAC
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Systems Architecture for Pervasive Retail
Recent developments in mobile technologies and associated economies of scale via mature manufacturing processes have made possible the construction of pervasive systems in specifi...
George Roussos, Panos Kourouthanasis, Eugene A. Gr...
USENIX
1994
13 years 6 months ago
A Usage Profile and Evaluation of a Wide-Area Distributed File System
The evolution of the Andrew File System (AFS) into a wide-area distributed file system has encouraged collaboration and information dissemination on a much broader scale than ever...
Mirjana Spasojevic, Mahadev Satyanarayanan
WMRD
1990
13 years 9 months ago
Replication in Ficus Distributed File Systems
Ficus is a replicated general ling environment for Unix intended to scale to very large nationwide networks. The system employs an optimistic one copy availability" model in ...
Gerald J. Popek, Richard G. Guy, Thomas W. Page Jr...