Electronic Resource Management Systems

Resource Management for Pervasive Systems

In pervasive contexts, many different applications, from different providers, will compete for access to resources: physical resources like sensors and actioners, as well as for software resources (services). Sensors provide information about the state of the world, and actioners change the world which can put goods and persons at risk. At least for safety reasons, it is critical to closely con...

Accommodating consortia within electronic resource management systems: Extending the ERMI specifications

This article discusses the needs of library consortia with respect to electronic resource management systems. The paper notes areas where the ERMI data dictionary fails to accommodate groups of libraries that by choice or necessity share an ERMS. The article documents areas where extension of the ERMI specifications is warranted in order to support library consortia.

A Genetic Based Resource Management Algorithm Considering Energy Efficiency in Cloud Computing Systems

Cloud computing is a result of the continuing progress made in the areas of hardware, technologies related to the Internet, distributed computing and automated management. The Increasing demand has led to an increase in services resulting in the establishment of large-scale computing and data centers, in addition to high operating costs and huge amounts of electrical power consumption. Insuffic...

Resource Provisioning and Dynamic Resource Management in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Traffic congestion has adverse consequences on the safety, economy and environment. The loss of productivity due to delays stemming from traffic jams, and increased fuel consumption leads to adverse economic consequences. For example, traffic congestion alone costs the USA 2.8 billion gallons of wasted fuel and a productivity loss of 4.2 billion hours per year [1]. Different studies [2], [3] ha...

Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Research and Practice