Time constraint is a key problem in workflow management. Now, with the emergence of new technologies such as web service, grid, this problem has become more complicated in service-...
The performance skeleton of an application is a short running program whose performance in any scenario reflects the performance of the application it represents. Such a skeleton ...
Current service-level agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers do not make guarantees about response time of Web applications hosted on the cloud. Satisfying a maximum average ...
Recent advances in computing and communication have given rise to the computational grid notion. The core of this computing paradigm is the design of a system for drawing compute ...
In this paper we consider a multi-server queue with a near general arrival process (represented as an arbitrary state-dependent Coxian distribution), a near general state-dependent...