I/O consolidation is a growing trend in production environments due to the increasing complexity in tuning and managing storage systems. A consequence of this trend is the need to...
Jianyong Zhang, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Alma Riska,...
The EXT3NS is a scalable file system designed to handle video streaming workload in large-scale on-demand streaming services. It is based on a special H/W device, called Network-S...
Baik-Song Ahn, Sung-Hoon Sohn, Chei-Yol Kim, Gyu-I...
Multi-organizational EDI message networks are complicated communication environments with various standards and technologies. The role of third party message exchange hubs has bec...
Internet based services, particularly asynchronous communication services, offer an environment suited to the rise of knowledge communities. Knowledge communities, or invisible co...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...