Grids currently serve as platforms for numerous scientific as well as business applications that generate and access vast amounts of data. In this paper, we address the need for e...
: As cloud services grow to span more and more globally distributed datacenters, there is an increasingly urgent need for automated mechanisms to place application data across thes...
Sharad Agarwal, John Dunagan, Navendu Jain, Stefan...
Cloud computing is an emerging technology that allows users to utilize on-demand computation, storage, data and services from around the world. However, Cloud service providers ch...
Suraj Pandey, Adam Barker, Kapil Kumar Gupta, Rajk...
— As the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles have gained importance, an emerging need has appeared for methodologies to locate desired services that provide access to ...
Mehmet S. Aktas, Sangyoon Oh, Geoffrey Fox, Marlon...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...