All modern distributed systems list performance and scalability as their core strengths. Given that optimal requires carefully selecting configuration options, typical cluster sizes can range anywhere from 2 to 300 nodes, it is rare for any two clusters be exactly the same. Validating behavior of in this large space challenging without automation stretches across software stack. In paper we pre...

A central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. In tax-funded European health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

One of the main features of High Throughput Computing systems is the availability of high power processing resources. Cloud Computing systems can offer these features through concepts like Pay-Per-Use and Quality of Service (QoS) over the Internet. Many applications in Cloud computing are represented by workflows. Quality of Service is one of the most important challenges in the context of sche...