Disk schedulers in current operating systems are generally work-conserving, i.e., they schedule a request as soon as the previous request has finished. Such schedulers often requ...
Abstract. When dealing with process calculi and automata which express both nondeterministic and probabilistic behavior, it is customary to introduce the notion of scheduler to res...
Internet servers need to be highly-available, inexpensive, and scalable. These goals are often con icting and most designs meet, with limited success, only few of them. In this pa...
Abstract— We consider the problem of providing QoS guarantees to Grid users through advance reservation of resources. Advance reservation mechanisms provide the ability to alloca...
Claris Castillo, George N. Rouskas, Khaled Harfous...
The number of applications with many parallel cooperating processes is steadily increasing, and developing efficient runtimes for their execution is an important task. Several fram...