In this chapter we present recent contributions in the field of sequential job scheduling on network machines which work in parallel; these are subject to temporary unavailability...
Florian Diedrich, Klaus Jansen, Ulrich M. Schwarz,...
Website capacity determination is crucial to measurement-based access control, because it determines when to turn away excessive client requests to guarantee consistent service qu...
Noncontiguous data access is a very common access pattern in many scientific applications. Using POSIX I/O to access many pieces of noncontiguous data segments will generate a lot...
The dynamic nature of a resource-sharing environment means that applications must be able to adapt their behavior in response to changes in system status. Predictions of future sy...
Multimedia presentation systems require flexible support for the modeling of multimedia content models. Many presentation systems provide the synchronized, sequential or concurren...