Service providers business goals require an efficient management of their computational resources in order to perform provisioning, deployment, execution and adaptation. While traditionally those activities require human intervention, the current trend is to automize those processes in order to reduce costs and increase productivity. The Semantically-Enhanced Resource Allocator is a framework d...

The DAM-LR project aims at virtually integrating various European language resource archives that allow users to navigate and operate in a single unified domain of language resources. This type of integration introduces Grid technology to the humanities disciplines and forms a federation of archives. It is the basis for establishing a research infrastructure for language resources which will fi...

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In multiprocessor systems, a reasonable goal of the sched-uler is to keep all processors as busy as possible. One technique for doing this is to allocate all available processors to the jobs waiting for service. Techniques which allocate all available processors are known as work-conserving policies. In this paper, non-work-conserving policies are examined. These policies keep some number of pr...

Non-renewable and renewable resources are imperfect substitutes due to technical and geographical constraints. What is the role of imperfect substitution on the optimal transition path to the clean technologies? We address this question by characterizing the optimal growth path and resource use of an economy. We show that the economy initially starts with using the non-renewable and renewable r...

Functional Genomics Center Zurich, ETH and University of Zurich, CH–8057 Zurich, Switzerland (H.R., C.A., A.P.); Department of Biology and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, ETH Zurich, CH–8092 Zurich, Switzerland (W.G., H.S., L.H.); Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, D–72076 Tuebingen, Germany (S.R.H., S.L., D.W., G.Z.); Department of Plant Systems...

As Grid technologies evolve quickly on Internet, research related to resource scheduling faces new opportunities and challenges. These new technologies, ideas and approaches provide a new environment for researching and developing the economy-based resource scheduling system. Aiming at the hierarchical Grid model, following utility optimization thinking, while an universal flexible utility func...

As amphibian populations continue to decline, both government and non-government organisations are establishing captive assurance colonies to secure populations deemed at risk of extinction if left in the wild. For the most part, little is known about the nutritional ecology, reproductive biology or husbandry needs of the animals placed into captive breeding programs. Because of this lack of kn...

This paper recognizes some emerging issues on metadata as a mechanism of resource discovery and its impact on precision of search results in a distributed network environment. It aims to present a brief account of the major metadata initiatives taken during the last couple of years, thus provide glimpses of recent activities on metadata across the globe. It also highlights a consistent growth o...