Clouds are emerging as an important class of distributed computational resources and are quickly becoming an integral part of production computational infrastructures. An importan...
Hyunjoo Kim, Yaakoub El Khamra, Shantenu Jha, Mani...
When users' tasks in a distributed heterogeneous computing environment (e.g., cluster of heterogeneous computers) are allocated resources, the total demand placed on some sys...
Jong-Kook Kim, Debra A. Hensgen, Taylor Kidd, Howa...
Utility computing is a service provisioning model which will provide adaptive, flexible and simple access to computing resources, enabling a pay-per-use model for computing simila...
More and more applications in the Internet are requiring an intelligent service infrastructure to provide customized services. In this paper, we present an infrastructure, which c...
: Automated processes in distributed communication environments require tools for unifying heterogeneous multimedia services. The Teleservice Descriptor is introduced for generic h...
Tom Pfeifer, Stefan Arbanowski, Radu Popescu-Zelet...