While there have been several proposals of high performance global computing systems, scheduling schemes for the systems have not been well investigated. The reason is difficultie...
This paper describes a scalable Web server array architecture which uses a caching policy called Probability Based Replacement (PBR) algorithm [5, 6]. The server array consists of...
The emerging Grid is extending the scope of resources to mobile devices and sensors that are connected through unreliable networks. Nowadays the number of mobile device users is in...
In the current approaches to workflow scheduling, there is no cooperation between the distributed workflow brokers and as a result, the problem of conflicting schedules occur. To o...
In the facility location problem (FLP) we are given a set of facilities and a set of clients, each of which is to be served by one facility. The goal is to decide which subset of f...