Cluster computing environments built from commodity hardware have provided a cost-effective solution for many scientific and high-performance applications. Likewise, middleware te...
—It has been observed in recent years that in many applications service time demands are highly variable. Without foreknowledge of exact service times of individual jobs, process...
Steve Thompson, Lester Lipsky, Sarah Tasneem, Feng...
Motivated by scheduling in cellular wireless networks and resource allocation in computer systems, we study a service facility with two classes of users having heterogeneous servi...
1 Data distribution and replication in distributed systems require special purpose middleware tools for accessing replicated data. Data Grids, special forms of a systems distribute...
: This paper gives a short overview of the multiagent-based simulation system PlaSMA. The system provides distributed discrete event simulation with conservative synchronisation. P...