This paper reports the development of the Concerto platform, which is dedicated to supporting the deployment of resource-aware parallel Java components on heterogeneous distributed platforms, such as pools of workstations in labs or offices. We propose a basic model of a parallel Java component and present some tools that facilitate the management and the deployment of such a component on a dis...

When searching multiple sources of information it is crucial to select only relevant sources for a given query, thus filtering out nonrelevant content. This task is known as resource selection and is used in many areas of information retrieval such as federated and aggregated search, blog distillation, etc. Resource selection often operates with limited and incomplete data and, therefore, is as...

Traditional wisdom in programming language design suggests that there is a trade-off between expressive power and static guarantees. We describe a novel schema for designing a class of languages that we call Resource-aware Programming (RAP) languages. By taking into account the natural distinction between the development platform and the deployment platform for embedded software, RAP languages ...

Job scheduling policies for HPC centers have been extensively studied in the last few years, especially backfilling based policies. Almost all of these studies have been done using simulation tools. All the existent simulators use the runtime (either estimated or real) provided in the workload as a basis of their simulations. In our previous work we analyzed the impact on system performance of ...

Deriving concrete products from a product-line infrastructure requires resolving the variability captured in the product line, based on the company market strategy or requirements from specific customers. Selecting the most appropriate set of features for a product is a complex task, especially if quality requirements have to be considered. Resource-usage-aware configuration aims at providing a...