Scheduling query execution plans is a particularly complex problem in hierarchical parallel systems, where each site consists of a collection of local time-shared (e.g., CPU(s) or...
The bag-of-tasks application model, albeit simple, arises in many application domains and has received a lot of attention in the scheduling literature. Previous works propose eithe...
Abstract. Despite recent improvements in wireless network protocols and the manufacturing of better, more performant mobile devices, developing mobile applications and services sti...
In this work we are interested in the problem of scheduling and redistributing data on master-slave platforms. We consider the case were the workers possess initial loads, some of...
– Maximizing consolidation ratio, the number of virtual machines (VMs) in a physical machine, without violating customers’ SLAs is an important goal in the cloud. We show that ...