Making effective use of computational Grids requires scheduling Grid applications onto resources that best match them. Resource-related state (e.g., load, availability, and locati...
Ronak Desai, Sameer Tilak, Bhavin Gandhi, Michael ...
In this paper we present a new approach to derive heavy-traffic asymptotics for polling models. We consider the classical cyclic polling model with exhaustive or gated service at ...
In large-scale distributed information systems, where participants are autonomous and have special interests for some queries, query allocation is a challenge. Much work in this c...
Cloud-based data management platforms often employ multitenant databases, where service providers achieve economies of scale by consolidating multiple tenants on shared servers. I...
Sean Kenneth Barker, Yun Chi, Hyun Jin Moon, Hakan...
MPEG-4 which is currently being developed by MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group), is poised to become a standard for supporting current and emerging interactive multimedia applic...