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Multi-agent systems (MAS) enable complex reasoning by coordinating multiple agents, but often incur high inference latency due to multi-step execution and repeated model invocations, severely limiting their scalability and usability in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Xi Shi , Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou

Serverless edge computing adopts an event-based paradigm that provides back-end services on an as-used basis, resulting in efficient resource utilization. To improve the end-to-end latency and revenue, service providers need to optimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Chen Chen , Manuel Herrera , Ge Zheng , Liqiao Xia , Zhengyang Ling , Jiangtao Wang

The amalgamation of Internet of Things and the smart grid enables the energy optimal scheduling of appliances based on user needs and dynamic energy prices. Additionally, progress in local storage technology calls for exploiting additional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-17 Brian Setz , Kawsar Haghshenas , Marco Aiello

Serverless computing eliminates infrastructure management overhead but introduces significant challenges regarding cold start latency and resource utilization. Traditional static resource allocation often leads to inefficiencies under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zeyu Wang , Cuiqianhe Du , Renyue Zhang , Kejian Tong , Qi He , Qiyuan Tian

Serverless computing offers attractive scalability, elasticity and cost-effectiveness. However, constraints on memory, CPU and function runtime have hindered its adoption for data-intensive applications and machine learning (ML) workloads.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Joe Oakley , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Serverless computing has become a major trend among cloud providers. With serverless computing, developers fully delegate the task of managing the servers, dynamically allocating the required resources, as well as handling availability and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Pascal Maissen , Pascal Felber , Peter Kropf , Valerio Schiavoni

Motivated by developer productivity, serverless computing, and microservices have become the de facto development model in the cloud. Microservices decompose monolithic applications into separate functional units deployed individually. This…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner , Mona Vij

In Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) serverless, large applications are split into short-lived stateless functions. Deploying functions is mutually profitable: users need not be concerned with resource management, while providers can keep their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Yuxuan Zhao , Weikang Weng , Rob van Nieuwpoort , Alexandru Uta

While scheduling and dispatching of computational workloads is a well-investigated subject, only recently has Google provided publicly a vast high-resolution measurement dataset of its cloud workloads. We revisit dispatching and scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Mert Yildiz , Alexey Rolich , Andrea Baiocchi

Due to the high scalability, infrastructure management, and pay-per-use pricing model, serverless computing has been adopted in a wide range of applications such as real-time data processing, IoT, and AI-related workflows. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Cynthia Marcelino , Sebastian Gollhofer-Berger , Thomas Pusztai , Stefan Nastic

Since the appearance of Amazon Lambda in 2014, all major cloud providers have embraced the Function as a Service (FaaS) model, because of its enormous potential for a wide variety of applications. As expected (and also desired), the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Pedro García López , Marc Sánchez-Artigas , Gerard París , Daniel Barcelona Pons , Álvaro Ruiz Ollobarren , David Arroyo Pinto

Serverless computing is a popular cloud deployment paradigm where developers implement applications as workflows of functions that invoke each other. Cloud providers automatically scale function instances on demand and forward workflow…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Dmitrii Ustiugov , Shyam Jesalpura , Mert Bora Alper , Michal Baczun , Rustem Feyzkhanov , Edouard Bugnion , Boris Grot , Marios Kogias

The application of serverless computing for alignment of RNA-sequences can improve many existing bioinformatics workflows by reducing operational costs and execution times. This work analyzes the applicability of serverless services for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Piotr Kica , Michał Orzechowski , Maciej Malawski

Serverless computing has emerged as a new paradigm for running short-lived computations in the cloud. Due to its ability to handle IoT workloads, there has been considerable interest in running serverless functions at the edge. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Bin Wang , Ahmed Ali-Eldin , Prashant Shenoy

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures offer the promise of larger model capacity without the prohibitive costs of fully dense designs. However, in real-world inference serving, load skew across experts often leads to suboptimal device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Shaoyu Wang , Guangrong He , Geon-Woo Kim , Yanqi Zhou , Seo Jin Park

Efficient runtime task scheduling on complex memory hierarchy becomes increasingly important as modern and future High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems are progressively composed of multisocket and multi-chiplet nodes with nonuniform…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mustafa Abduljabbar , Mahmoud Eljammaly , Miquel Pericas

In some models of parallel computation, jobs are split into smaller tasks and can be executed completely asynchronously. In other situations the parallel tasks have constraints that require them to synchronize their start and possibly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Brenton Walker , Markus Fidler

Elasticity is one of key features of cloud computing. Elasticity allows Software as a Service (SaaS) applications' provider to reduce cost of running applications. In large SaaS applications that are developed using service-oriented…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Ashraf A. Shahin

Serverless computing is a widely adopted cloud execution model composed of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings. The increased level of abstraction makes vendor lock-in inherent to serverless computing,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Haidong Zhao , Zakaria Benomar , Tobias Pfandzelter , Nikolaos Georgantas

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has become a dominant architecture in large language models (LLMs) due to its ability to scale model capacity via sparse expert activation. Meanwhile, serverless computing, with its elasticity and pay-per-use…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Wentao Liu , Yuhao Hu , Ruiting Zhou , Baochun Li , Ne Wang