Service-oriented computing paradigm encourages the use of dynamic binding of application requirements to the resources needed to fulfill application tasks. Especially in pervasive...
Nanjangud C. Narendra, Umesh Bellur, S. K. Nandy, ...
Utility provisioning, Grid resource management, instant copy kiosks, and network transfers provide an exciting new paradigm for data warehouse functions. Grid technologies are fas...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling jobs in soft real-time systems, where the utility of completing each job decreases over time. We present a utility-based framework fo...
Forecasting workflow activity durations is of great importance to support satisfactory QoS in workflow systems. Traditionally, a workflow system is often designed to facilitate the...
Embedded services and applications that interact with the real world often, over time, need to run on different kinds of hardware (low-cost microcontrollers to powerful multicore ...