Using User Hints to Guide Resource Management for Quality of Service.
Michael J. Katchabaw, Hanan L. Lutfiyya, Michael Bauer · 1999
Today's computing environments are becoming more and more distributed in nature. At the same time, the applications used in these environments are becoming more complicated and are being used in more mission critical roles in the enterprise. Consequently, users' demands for performance, reliability, and availability are increasing rapidly. To meet these needs, a high level of quality of service must be delivered to the user. Doing so, however, is not an easy task. Applications that are the focus of user interest and activity should be favoured in resource allocation and scheduling to provide the best possible quality, as opposed to those applications which are essentially ignored by the user. Fortunately, users often provide hints of their interest and activity through interactions with their windowing environments or applications directly. For example, applications that users are not attending to tend to get minimized or covered over on the window desktop in favour of those on which ...