— The global internet is rich in commodity resources but scarce in specialized resources. We argue that a grid framework can achieve better performance if it separates management...
Abstract. This paper is devoted to scheduling a large collection of independent tasks onto a distributed heterogeneous platform, which is composed of a set of servers. Each server ...
The computational requirements for an adaptive solution of unsteady problems change as the simulation progresses. This causes workload imbalance among processors on a parallel mac...
—This paper describes Herald, an agent based toolkit for dispatching and processing items in a distributed environment. Herald is suitable for scenarios where the process could b...
Christian Vecchiola, Alberto Grosso, Andrea Passad...
—In this paper, we propose P3 -coupon, a Prompt and Privacy-preserving electronic coupon distribution system based on a Probabilistic one-ownership forwarding algorithm. In this ...
Boying Zhang, Jin Teng, Xiaole Bai, Zhimin Yang, D...