Networking infrastructure is a vital part of virtual computer clusters. This paper describes VirtCloud, a system for interconnecting virtual clusters in a state-wide network based...
David Antos, Ludek Matyska, Petr Holub, Jirí...
Micro-task platforms provide massively parallel, ondemand labor. However, it can be difficult to reliably achieve high-quality work because online workers may behave irresponsibly...
Steven Dow, Anand Pramod Kulkarni, Scott R. Klemme...
: Economic theory and business strategists have pointed at the phenomenon of positive externalities and the related enabling and constraining aspects of an installed base. For inst...
A common approach to adding self-management capabilities to a system is to provide one or more external control modules, whose responsibility is to monitor system behavior, and ad...
Shang-Wen Cheng, An-Cheng Huang, David Garlan, Bra...
Abstract. The inefficiency of integration processes—as an abstraction of workflow-based integration tasks—is often reasoned by low resource utilization and significant waiti...