The use of component models such as Enterprise Java Beans and the CORBA Component Model (CCM) in application development is expanding rapidly. Even in real-time safety/mission-cri...
John Hatcliff, Xianghua Deng, Matthew B. Dwyer, Ge...
Computer system sizing involves estimating the amount of hardware resources needed to support a new workload not yet deployed in a production environment. In order to determine th...
Ted J. Wasserman, Patrick Martin, David B. Skillic...
We consider a dynamic load balancing scenario in which users allocate resources in a non-cooperative and selfish fashion. The perceived performance of a resource for a user decre...
Heiner Ackermann, Simon Fischer, Martin Hoefer, Ma...
The emergence of electronic marketplaces and other electronic services and applications on the Internet is creating a growing demand for effective management of resources. Due to ...
Markus Keidl, Alexander Kreutz, Alfons Kemper, Don...
— The demand for cheap broadband Internet for nomadic users has created a market for Internet sharing. WiFi communities which allow their users to share their wired Internet conn...