Usher is a virtual machine management system designed to impose few constraints upon the computing environment under its management. Usher enables administrators to choose how the...
Problem determination remains one of the most expensive and time-consuming functions in system management due to the difficulty in automating what is essentially a highly experien...
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Support for distributed application management in large-scale networked environments remains in its early stages. Although a number of solutions exist for subtasks of application ...
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Agent-based simulation provides a methodology to investigate complex systems behavior, such as supply chains, while incorporating many empirical elements relative to both systems ...
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