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IM
2007
14 years 10 months ago
A Service Middleware that Scales in System Size and Applications
We present a peer-to-peer service management middleware that dynamically allocates system resources to a large set of applications. The system achieves scalability in number of no...
Constantin Adam, Rolf Stadler, Chunqiang Tang, Mal...
ATAL
2010
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Scalable mechanism design for the procurement of services with uncertain durations
In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Network Design For Rate Adaptive Media Streams
— Rate adaptive multimedia streams offer significant system and client benefits over non-adaptive streams. These benefits come at the price of increased complexity in providin...
Steven Weber, Gustavo de Veciana
SC
2009
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Kestrel: an XMPP-based framework for many task computing applications
This paper presents a new distributed computing framework for Many Task Computing (MTC) applications, based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). A lightweight...
Lance Stout, Michael A. Murphy, Sebastien Goasguen
AAAI
2000
15 years 1 days ago
Adaptive User Interfaces through Dynamic Design Automation
The inherent difficulty in supporting human usability in large control systems--such as building environmental and security systems--derives from the large diversity of components...
Robin R. Penner, Erik S. Steinmetz, Christopher L....