Challenges of Managing Common Resources

Managing tragedies: understanding conflict over common pool resources.

Conflicts over the management of common pool resources are not simply material. They also depend on the perceptions of the protagonists. Policy to improve management often assumes that problems are self-evident, but in fact careful and transparent consideration of the ways different stakeholders understand management problems is essential to effective dialogue.

Managing Open Educational Resources

In the last few years, the international work on Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCS) underlined new needs for open educational resources (OER) management within the context of the Web of Data. First, within MOOCs, all (or at least most) resources must be open and available on the Web through URIs, including the MOOCs themselves. Second the evolution of research and practice in the field of OER...

Managing Heterogeneous Resources

The Grid supports the sharing and coordinated use of resources in dynamic heterogeneous distributed environments. The effective use of a Grid requires the definition of an approach to manage the heterogeneity of the involved resources that can include computers, data, network facilities and software tools provided by different organizations. This issue get more importance when complex applicati...

Managing Scarce Water Resources – China

Managing Network Resources in Condor

Data-intensive applications in the Condor High Throughput Computing environment can place heavy demands on network resources for checkpointing and remote data access. We have developed mechanisms to monitor, control, and schedule network usage in Condor. By managing network resources, these mechanisms provide administrative control over Condor’s network usage and improve the execution efficienc...