The development of software is not an easy task and the availability of adequate tool support is an important step towards reducing the effort that a developer must put into the So...
A pervasive requirement of distributed systems is to deal with churn — change in the set of participating nodes due to joins, graceful leaves, and failures. A high churn rate ca...
We define the class of SMART scheduling policies. These are policies that bias towards jobs with small remaining service times, jobs with small original sizes, or both, with the ...
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter, Takayuki Osogami
"Software as a service" approach has become a reality since efforts of both industry and research focused on service integration on the web. It would be possible to see ...
Background: Recent advances in Web and information technologies with the increasing decentralization of organizational structures have resulted in massive amounts of information r...