Design and implementation of a service-oriented architecture for the optimization of industrial applications

A Girbea, C Suciu, S Nechifor… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel architecture for the field of industrial automation is described, the goals of which are:
1) computation of optimal production plans; 2) automated usage of the optimized plans; 3) …

Optimal orthogonal-array-based latin hypercubes

S Leary, A Bhaskar, A Keane - Journal of Applied Statistics, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
The use of optimal orthogonal array latin hypercube designs is proposed. Orthogonal arrays
were proposed for constructing latin hypercube designs by Tang (1993). Such designs …

Appscale: Scalable and open appengine application development and deployment

N Chohan, C Bunch, S Pang, C Krintz… - Cloud Computing: First …, 2010 - Springer
We present the design and implementation of AppScale, an open source extension to the
Google AppEngine (GAE) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud technology. Our extensions …

An interoperable and self-adaptive approach for SLA-based service virtualization in heterogeneous Cloud environments

A Kertész, G Kecskemeti, I Brandic - Future Generation Computer Systems, 2014 - Elsevier
Cloud computing is a newly emerged computing infrastructure that builds on the latest
achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid computing, Service-oriented …

An SLA-based resource virtualization approach for on-demand service provision

A Kertesz, G Kecskemeti, I Brandic - … of the 3rd international workshop on …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
Cloud computing is a newly emerged research infrastructure that builds on the latest
achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid computing, Service-oriented …

An innovative workflow mapping mechanism for grids in the frame of quality of service

D Kyriazis, K Tserpes, A Menychtas, A Litke… - Future Generation …, 2008 - Elsevier
The advent of Grid environments made feasible the solution of computational intensive
problems in a reliable and cost-effective way. As workflow systems carry out more complex …

When and why do young people in the United Kingdom first use sexual health services?

N Stone, R Ingham - Perspectives on sexual and reproductive …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
CONTEXT: Many young people think about and take steps to obtain adequate protection
only after having sexual intercourse for the first time. Consequently, they are at increased …

Market‐Oriented Resource Management and Scheduling: A Taxonomy and Survey

SK Garg, R Buyya - Cooperative Networking, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter summarizes the recent advances toward the vision of utility grids. It starts with
an overview of grid and utility computing, and specifies all the requirements of a utility grid …

A recommender mechanism for service selection in service-oriented environments

K Tserpes, F Aisopos, D Kyriazis… - Future Generation …, 2012 - Elsevier
The emergence of service-oriented computing as a key-enabler of web applications and the
subsequent increase in the web services available, has brought to the surface a major …

Resource management in software as a service using the knapsack problem model

F Aisopos, K Tserpes, T Varvarigou - International Journal of Production …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a resource allocation model for “Software as a Service” systems that
maximizes the service provider's revenues and the resource utilization under a heavy load …