Web services (WS) have become a significant part of the Web because of such attractive features as simple to use, platform independence, and XML/SOAP support. However, these featu...
Traditional performance analysis techniques are performed after a parallel program has completed. In this paper, we describe an online method for continuously monitoring the perfor...
Isaac Dooley, Chee Wai Lee, Laxmikant V. Kal&eacut...
A major advantage of service-based computing technology is the ability to enable rapid formation of large-scale distributed systems by composing massively available services to ac...
Stephen S. Yau, Yisheng Yao, Zhaoji Chen, Luping Z...
To distribute risk in Grid, the design of service level agreements (SLAs) plays an important role, since these contracts determine the price for a service at an agreed quality lev...
Michael Becker, Nikolay Borrisov, Vikas Deora, Ome...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...