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BDIM
2007
IEEE
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A Mechanism of Specifying and Determining Pricing in Utility Computing Environments
Utility services providers offer on-demand services for multiple users and applications from a shared resource pool. The utility computing environment provider manages resources th...
Jinsong Ouyang, Akhil Sahai, Jim Pruyne
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
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Heuristics for the Design and Optimization of Streaming Content Distribution Networks
Abstract— The design of efficient and scalable streaming Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) is an open problem of great economic interest. A key decision is the number of repl...
Sandjai Bhulai, Robert D. van der Mei, Mengxiao Wu
HICSS
2007
IEEE
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The Future of Work: What Does Online Community Have to Do with It?
Amidst constant innovation in information and communication technologies, a new pattern of work is emerging. Hierarchical authority structures are giving way to greater decision-m...
Dejin Zhao, Mary Beth Rosson, Sandeep Purao
HPDC
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
Precise and realistic utility functions for user-centric performance analysis of schedulers
Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
Cynthia Bailey Lee, Allan Snavely
HPDC
2007
IEEE
16 years 1 months ago
PeerStripe: a p2p-based large-file storage for desktop grids
In desktop grids the use of off-the-shelf shared components makes the use of dedicated resources economically nonviable and increases the complexity of design of efficient storag...
Chreston Miller, Patrick Butler, Ankur Shah, Ali R...