Abstract. Middleware for pervasive spaces has to meet conflicting requirements. It has to both maximize the utility of the information exposed and ensure that this information doe...
Daniel Massaguer, Bijit Hore, Mamadou H. Diallo, S...
Resource scheduling in large-scale, volatile desktop grids is challenging because resource state is both dynamic and eclectic. Matching available resources with requests is not al...
Deger Cenk Erdil, Michael J. Lewis, Nael B. Abu-Gh...
The emerging service grids bring together various distributed services to a ‘market’ for clients to request and enable the integration of services across distributed, heteroge...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
Traditional techniques for building dependable, highperformance distributed systems are too expensive for most non-critical systems, often causing dependability to be sidelined as...
Vikram S. Adve, Adnan Agbaria, Matti A. Hiltunen, ...