When investigating the performance of running scientific/ commercial workflows in parallel and distributed systems, we often take into account only the resources allocated to the ...
Ligang He, Mark Calleja, Mark Hayes, Stephen A. Ja...
good data partitioning scheme is the need of the time. However it is very diflcult to arrive at a good solution as the number of possible dutupartitionsfor a given real lifeprogra...
The number of distributed high performance computing architectures has increased exponentially these last years. Thus, systems composed by several computational resources provided ...
Peer-to-Peer file-sharing applications suffer from a fundamental problem of unfairness. Free-riders cause slower download times for others by contributing little or no upload band...
In the single rent-to-buy decision problem, without a priori knowledge of the amount of time a resource will be used we need to decide when to buy the resource, given that we can ...