In order to co-ordinate multiple resource providers in grid environment to meet a common objective, support for negotiation is needed to establish a contract between the users and...
Ponnuram Balakrishnan, S. Thamarai Selvi, Gnanapra...
Web service-based workflow management systems have garnered considerable attention for automating and scheduling dependent operations. Such systems often support user preferences,...
David Chiu, Sagar Deshpande, Gagan Agrawal, Rongxi...
Advance reservation of lightpaths in Grid environments is necessary to guarantee QoS and reliability. In this paper, we have evaluated and compared several algorithms for dynamic ...
Savera Tanwir, Lina Battestilli, Harry G. Perros, ...
Abstract. Deploying lightweight tasks on grid resources would let the communication overhead dominate the overall application processing time. Our aim is to increase the resulting ...
Nithiapidary Muthuvelu, Ian Chai, Eswaran Chikkann...
—Large scale production grids are an important case for autonomic computing. They follow a mutualization paradigm: decision-making (human or automatic) is distributed and largely...