Decision-support requires the gathering and presentation of information, but is subject to many kinds of resource restrictions (e.g. cost, length, time). Individual users differ n...
In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
We consider a virtual computing environment that provides computational resources on demand to users with multiattribute task descriptions that include a valuation, resource (CPU)...
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
Dynamically allocating computing nodes to parallel applications is a promising technique for improving the utilization of cluster resources. Detailed simulations can help identify...
Basile Schaeli, Sebastian Gerlach, Roger D. Hersch