A key issue in utility computing environments, such as utility Grids, is the provisioning, orchestration and allocation of resources to services. In these environments, providers ...
Abstract. Safety policy is a collection of rules that govern the behaviour of entities such that they do not cause accidents. It has been suggested that policies in general can be ...
An important part of a distributed system design is the workload sharing among the processors. This includes partitioningthe arriving jobs into tasks that can be executed in paral...
The objective of this paper is to suggest a systematic means by which the timing and focus of information technology policies can be used to optimize supply chain performance and ...
Policy making is a multi-actor process: it involves a variety of actors, each trying to further their own interests. How these actors decide and act largely depends on the way the...