Grosch's law re-revisited: CPU power and the cost of computation
Communications of the ACM
Computer and Database Location in Distributed Computer Systems
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Combinatorial optimization: algorithms and complexity
Combinatorial optimization: algorithms and complexity
A Comprehensive Model for the Design of Distributed Computer Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Combinatorial algorithms for integrated circuit layout
Combinatorial algorithms for integrated circuit layout
Second-generation client/server computing
Second-generation client/server computing
Object-oriented client/server Internet environments
Object-oriented client/server Internet environments
Thin-client computers come of age
Network Computing
Scheduling Algorithms for Multiprogramming in a Hard-Real-Time Environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Network Computing
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
On balancing the load in a clustered web farm
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Performance Guarantees for Web Server End-Systems: A Control-Theoretical Approach
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
A cost-oriented methodology for the design of web based IT architectures
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Scaling for E Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning
Scaling for E Business: Technologies, Models, Performance, and Capacity Planning
Legacy Information Systems: Issues and Directions
IEEE Software
ICECCS '95 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
Joint optimization of hardware and network systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Cost minimization in the design of IT infrastructures
SEPADS'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems
Business-Driven Design of Infrastructures for IT Services
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Measuring IT infrastructure project size: infrastructure effort points
CAiSE'05 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
A multi-model algorithm for the cost-oriented design of Internet-based systems
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Cost Evaluation on Building and Operating Cloud Platform
International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing
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The selection of a cost-minimizing combination of hardware and network components that satisfy organizational requirements is a complex design problem with multiple degrees of freedom. Decisions must be made on how to distribute the overall computing load onto multiple computers, where to locate computers and how to take advantage of legacy components. The corresponding optimization problem not only embeds the structure of NP-hard problems, but also represents a challenge with a well-structured heuristic approach. A scientific approach has been rarely applied to cost minimization and a rigorous methodological support to cost issues of infrastructural design is still lacking. The methodological contribution of this paper is the representation of complex infrastructural design issues as a single cost-minimization problem. The problem is decomposed in four interwined cost-minimization sub-prolems; optimization is accomplished by sequentially solving these sub-problems with a heuristic approach and tuning their solution with a final tabusearch step. Results indicate that decomposition significantly reduces optimization time and solutions are also closer to the global optimum if results are compared to those identified without prior decomposition. Cost reductions are also significant when practicioners' solutions, obtained by applying simplified design rules from the professional literature, are considered.