Production grids have a potential for parallel execution of a very large number of tasks but also introduce a high overhead that significantly impacts the execution of short task...
In this paper we consider a single-server cyclic polling system. Between visits to successive queues, the server is delayed by a random switch-over time. The order in which custom...
Marko A. A. Boon, Ivo J. B. F. Adan, Onno J. Boxma
Multi-core processors with ever increasing number of cores per chip are becoming prevalent in modern parallel computing. Our goal is to make use of the multi-core as well as multi...
Lei Li, Wenjie Fu, Fan Guo, Todd C. Mowry, Christo...
Abstract—Managing group membership in an ad hoc mcommerce trading forum is a challenging task as peers may only have partial knowledge of the current membership due to frequent n...
The Time-Triggered Architecture (TTA) provides a computing infrastructure for the design and implementation of dependable distributed embedded systems. A large real-time applicatio...