Widely-used operating systems provide inadequate support for large-scale Internet server applications. Their algorithms and interfaces fail to e ciently support either event-drive...
Abstract Computational Grids consist of a multitude of geographically distributed resources. The co-allocation of several of those resources allows for the execution of highly comp...
Bruno Volckaert, Pieter Thysebaert, Marc De Leenhe...
This paper investigates an adaptive constructive method for solving nurse rostering problems. The constraints considered in the problems are categorised into three classes: those t...
Peter Brucker, Edmund K. Burke, Timothy Curtois, R...
We propose dynamic scheduler designs to improve the scheduler scalability and reduce its complexity in the SMT processors. Our first design is an adaptation of the recently propos...
—The design of scheduling policies for wireless data systems has been driven by a compromise between the objectives of high overall system throughput and the degree of fairness a...