This paper studies the QoS-aware replica placement problem. Although there has been much work on replica placement problem, most of them concerns average system performance and ign...
The electronics design industry is facing major challenges as transistors continue to decrease in size. The next generation of devices will be so small that the position of indivi...
Liangxiu Han, Asen Asenov, Dave Berry, Campbell Mi...
In this paper, we consider parallel tasks scheduling problems for hierarchical decentralized systems that consist of homogeneous computational resources such as clusters, PCs and ...
Sergey Zhuk, Andrey Chernykh, Arutyun Avetisyan, S...
At least three factors in the existing migrating systems make them less suitable in Grid systems especially when the goal is to improve the response times for individual applicati...
In this study, a new Genetic Algorithm (GA) using the Tabu · Local Search mechanism is proposed. The GA described in this paper is considered a Mega Process GA, which has an effe...