In this paper, a new I/O-aware load-balancing scheme is presented to improve overall performance of a distributed system with a general and practical workload including I/O activi...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
Load balancing in a cluster system has been investigated extensively, mainly focusing on the effective usage of global CPU and memory resources. However, if a significant portion ...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson
Program and system comprehension are vital parts of the software maintenance process. We discuss the need for both perspectives and describe two methods that may be integrated to ...
Christos Tjortjis, Nicolas Gold, Paul J. Layzell, ...
Year after year, the frequency of updated releases of software continues to increase. Without an automated install process, the result is either that a system installs software wi...
Abstract. To have certainty about identities is crucial for secure communication in digital environments. The number of digital identities that people and organizations need to man...