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OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 24 days ago
Experiences with Content Addressable Storage and Virtual Disks
Efficiently managing storage is important for virtualized computing environments. Its importance is magnified by developments such as cloud computing which consolidate many thousa...
Anthony Liguori, Eric Van Hensbergen
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IPPS
2002
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Performance Prediction Technology for Agent-Based Resource Management in Grid Environments
Resource management constitutes an important infrastructural component of a computational grid environment. The aim of grid resource management is to efficiently schedule applicat...
Junwei Cao, Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, ...
100
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SIGOPSE
2000
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
Congestion prices as feedback signals: an approach to QoS management
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...
Rolf Neugebauer, Derek McAuley
118
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ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
A 'companion' ECA with planning and activity modelling
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
An embodied conversational agent as a lifestyle advisor
Persistent Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) can be used to assist users in their daily activities. We introduce the Health and Fitness Companion (HFC), which is a conversation...
Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Zhang, Marc Cav...