In heterogeneous distributed systems, such as Grids, a resource broker is responsible of automatically selecting resources, and mapping application tasks to them. A crucial aspect...
Abstract—A premier goal of resource allocators in virtualization environments is to control the relative resource consumption of the different virtual machines, and moreover, to ...
Scheduling plays a central role in the behavioral synthesis process, which automatically compiles high-level specifications into optimized hardware implementations. However, most ...
This paper presents a hybrid technique that combines List Scheduling (LS) with Genetic Algorithms (GA) for constructing non-preemptive schedules for soft real-time parallel applic...
One of the challenges facing the on-line gaming community is the delivery of new content to players. While the initial distribution of a game is typically done via large media for...