The issue of management and allocation of resources in cloud computing environments, according to the breadth of scale and modern technology implementation, is a complicated issue. Issues such as: the heterogeneity of resources, resource dependencies to each other, the dynamics of the environment, virtualization, workload diversity as well as a wide range of management objectives of cloud servi...

Online resource allocation problems are difficult because the operator must make irrevocable decisions rapidly and with limited (or nonexistent) information on future requests. We propose a mathematical-programming-based framework that takes into account all the available forecasts and the limited computational time. We combine Benders decomposition, which allows us to measure the expected futu...

This is a framework for resource allocation in a heterogeneous system composed of various access networks, for instance Third Generation wireless networks (3G) and WLAN, in the presence of multimedia traffic, namely voice and data. Our aim is to present a game theoretical modeling of routing and loadbalancing strategies along with admission control and pricing in cooperative and non-cooperative...

We investigate the impact of Stackelberg routing to reduce the price of anarchy innetwork routing games. In this setting, an α fraction of the entire demand is first routed centrallyaccording to a predefined Stackelberg strategy and the remaining demand is then routed selfishlyby (nonatomic) players. Although several advances have been made recently in proving thatStackelberg ro...

Complex environments for ATM based telecommunication services assume high availability and reliability of the network resources as well as the services. In order to reduce the cost of building and maintaining wide area ATM networks, efficient and cost-effective resource management techniques are needed to avoid over-allocation of resources. This requires building a network having the intelligen...

In deep-submicron technology, several state-of-the-art architectural synthesis flows have already adopted the distributed register architecture to cope with the increasing wire delay by allowing multicycle communication. In this article, we regard communication synthesis targeting a refined regular distributed register architecture, named RDR-GRS, as a problem of simultaneous data transfer rout...

Although liveness enforcing supervision (LES) of sequential resource allocation systems (RAS) is currently a well-established problem in the Discrete Event System literature, all prior work on it has addressed the underlying LES synthesis problem under the assumption that the system behavior is totally controllable. The work presented in this paper seeks to develop correct and scaleable LES for...

resource leveling and allocation are two basic categories for project management. the objective of resource allocation is to schedule activities so that a particular resource does not exceed a specific limit in any given project time period, while holding the project duration to a minimum. the resource leveling problem arises when there are sufficient resources available and it is necessary to ...

with demand for health services continuing to grow as populations age and new technologies emerge to meet health needs, healthcare policy-makers are under constant pressure to set priorities, ie, to make choices about the health services that can and cannot be funded within available resources. in a recent paper, smith et al apply an influential policy studies framework – kingdon’s multiple str...

ion and Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning Bandwidth Allocation Christian Frei and Boi Faltings Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland [email protected] Abstract—Communication networks are expected to offer a wide range of services to an increasingly large number of users, with a diverse range of quality of...