Design and implementation trade-offs for wide-area resource discovery

Scalable Wide-Area Resource Discovery

This paper describes the design and implementation of S W O R D , a scalable resource discov ery serv ice for w ide-area distributed sy stems. S W O R D locates a set of machines matching user-specifi ed constraints on both static and dy namic node characteristics, including both single-node and inter-node characteristics. W e ex plore a range of sy stem architectures to determine the appropria...

Design Trade-offs for Electronic Intermediaries

Evolving Engineering Design Trade-offs

In the engineering design process, it is important to know the engineering trade-offs achievable under various design preferences and strategies. In this paper, a family of engineering design trade-offs are evolved from an automatic design synthesis methodology based on evolutionary computation. The complete Pareto optima frontier can be evolved by a consideration of fitness function that aggre...

Aggregation functions for engineering design trade-offs

The choice of an aggregation function is a common problem in Multi Attribute Decision Making (MADM) systems. The Method of Imprecision (MoI) is a formal theory for the manipulation of preliminary design information that represents preferences among design alternatives with the mathematics of fuzzy sets. The MoI formulates the preliminary design problem as a MADM problem. To date, two aggregatio...

Design Choices/Engineering Trade-Offs

T his special issue addresses the business of producing computing machines and the choices computer architects and implementors must make to succeed in the marketplace. This focus represents the sober reflection that computer architecture is not yet a science, even though parts of the discipline can be considered science and most of it often involves scientific methodology. To a large extent, t...