In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...
A new age of heterogeneous resource integration has begun. Next generation of integration systems will utilize different methods and techniques to achieve the vision of ubiquitous...
Oleksiy Khriyenko, Oleksandr Kononenko, Vagan Y. T...
There are many technologies for distributed processing/interoperation, including CORBA, DCE, DCOM, Enterprise Java Beans, Java IDL, JDBC, etc. Most promising, is the emergence of ...
Steven A. Demurjian, T. C. Ting, J. Balthazar, H. ...
We consider the practical problem of task assignment in a server farm, where each arriving job is immediately dispatched to a server in the farm. We look at the benefit of cycle ...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Cuihong Li, Takayuki Osogami, ...
Digital content is not only stored by servers on the Internet, but also on various embedded devices belonging to ubiquitous networks. In this paper, we propose a content processin...