Cloud computing manages a variety of virtualized resources, which makes scheduling a
critical component. In the cloud, a client may utilize several thousand virtualized assets for …

Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity
and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an …

Cloud data centers consume huge amounts of electrical energy which results in an
increased operational cost, decreased system reliability and carbon dioxide footprints. Thus …

In a Grid computing system, many distributed scientific and engineering applications often
require multi-institutional collaboration, large-scale resource sharing, wide-area …

Fault-tolerant scheduling plays a significant role in improving system reliability of clusters.
Although extensive fault-tolerant scheduling algorithms have been proposed for real-time …

Security-critical real-time applications such as military aircraft flight control systems have
mandatory security requirements in addition to stringent timing constraints. Conventional …

In the last years, scientific workflows have emerged as a fundamental abstraction for
structuring and executing scientific experiments in computational environments. Scientific …

We present a simple method for performing real-time collision detection in a virtual surgery
environment. The method relies on the graphics hardware for testing the interpenetration …

In large-scale networked computing systems, component failures become norms instead of
exceptions. Failure-aware resource management is crucial for enhancing system availability …

Heterogeneous computing systems are promising computing platforms, since single parallel
architecture based systems may not be sufficient to exploit the available parallelism with the …