—We introduce Zen, a new resource allocation framework that assigns application components to node clusters to achieve high availability for partial-fault tolerant (PFT) applicat...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Background: Formal classification of a large collection of protein structures aids the understanding of evolutionary relationships among them. Classifications involving manual ste...
Vichetra Sam, Chin-Hsien Tai, Jean Garnier, Jean-F...
An increasing number of applications are being developed using distributed object computing (DOC) middleware, such as CORBA. Many of these applications require the underlying midd...
Aniruddha S. Gokhale, Balachandran Natarajan, Doug...
Millions of small heterogeneous computers are poised to spread into the infrastructure of our society. Though mostly inconspicuous today, disguised as nothing more than PIM (perso...
Peter Wyckoff, Stephen W. McLaughry, Tobin J. Lehm...