This paper proposes a new method for programming and controlling distributed tasks. Applications declare behavior patterns that are used to automatically predict and reserve resou...
Power-performance optimization is a relatively new problem area particularly in the context of server clusters. Poweraware request distribution is a method of scheduling service r...
This paper describes a Global Computing (GC) environment, called XtremWeb-CH (XWCH). XWCH is an improved version of a GC tool called XtremWeb (XW). XWCH tries to enrich XW in orde...
In this paper, we explore the problem of mapping filtering streaming applications on large-scale homogeneous platforms, with a particular emphasis on communication models and thei...
We set out to answer a question we were asked by software project management: how much effort remains to be spent on a specific software project and how will that effort be distri...