• Exploiting semantics and virtualization for SLA-driven resource allocation in service providers 

      Ejarque, Jorge; Palol, Marc de; Goiri Presa, Íñigo; Julià, Ferran; Guitart Fernández, Jordi; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Torres Viñals, Jordi (2010-04-01)
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      Resource management is a key challenge that service providers must adequately face in order to accomplish their business goals. This paper introduces a framework, the semantically enhanced resource allocator (SERA), aimed ...
    • Utitily-based placement of dynamic Web applications with fairness goals 

      Carrera Pérez, David; Steinder, Malgorzata; Whalley, Ian; Torres Viñals, Jordi; Ayguadé Parra, Eduard (2008)
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      We study the problem of dynamic resource allocation to clustered Web applications. We extend application server middleware with the ability to automatically decide the size of application clusters and their placement on ...