We define the class of SMART scheduling policies. These are policies that bias towards jobs with small remaining service times, jobs with small original sizes, or both, with the ...
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter, Takayuki Osogami
This paper deals with multiprocessor systems required to provide both high performance and good figures of dependability attributes. Fault tolerance is pursued through a proper co...
Felicita Di Giandomenico, Silvano Chiaradonna, And...
A major problem in the field of content-based image retrieval is the lack of a common performance measure which allows the researcher to compare different image retrieval systems ...
The use of virtualization is progressively accommodating diverse and unpredictable workloads as being adopted in virtual desktop and cloud computing environments. Since a virtual ...
Hwanju Kim, Hyeontaek Lim, Jinkyu Jeong, Heeseung ...
A growing number of companies are outsourcing their purchasing processes to independent purchasing agencies. These agencies now have to process an ever increasing number of purchas...