Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
This contribution presents the design and implementation of a bank service, constituting a key component in a recently developed Grid accounting system solution. The Grid accountin...
A market-based scheduling mechanism allocates resources indexed by time to alternative uses based on the bids of participating agents. Agents are typically interested in multiple ...
Michael P. Wellman, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Danie...
This paper describes TEMPEST, a planner that enables a solar-powered rover to reason about path selection and event placement in terms of available solar energy and anticipated po...
Providing Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees and mobility support for Internet devices has become a hot research topic in the Next Generation Internet research, since mobile compu...