Unlike Internet portals, a typical Web Information System contains lots of user operations. However, existing Web design frameworks focus exclusively on data presentation: the proc...
Hongyan Li, Ming Xue, Jianjun Wang, Shiwei Tang, D...
In a distributed system where scalability is an issue, like in a GRID [5], the problem of enforcing mutual exclusion often arises in a soft form: the infrequent failure of the mut...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Using virtual machines as a resource provisioning mechanism offers multiple benefits, most recently exploited by “infrastructure-as-a-service” clouds, but also poses several...
Delivered end-to-end QoS is often limited by the ineffective resource management at Internet end systems. To overcome this problem, we present a resource allocation framework tha...