As raw system and network performance continues to improve at exponential rates, the utility of many services is increasingly limited by availability rather than performance. A ke...
Today organizations and business enterprises of all sizes need to deal with unprecedented amounts of digital information, creating challenging demands for mass storage and on-dema...
Sangeetha Seshadri, Ling Liu, Brian F. Cooper, Law...
— One of the major challenges in managing resources of computational Grids with diverse shared resources is how to meet users' QoS requirements and rationally distribute res...
A major advantage of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the ability to enable rapid formation of large-scale distributed systems. A dominant factor for the success of service-...
Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...