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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+Neal Walfield has submitted a paper to
+[[community/meetings/EuroSys_2009]] describing how resource management
+is done in [[microkernel/viengoos]]:
+
+[Viengoos: A Framework for Stakeholder-Directed Resource
+Allocation](http://walfield.org/papers/2009-walfield-viengoos-a-framework-for-stakeholder-directed-resource-allocation.pdf).
+
+[[!if test="included()" then="""[[!toggle id=abstract
+text="Abstract."]][[!toggleable id=abstract text="[[!paste id=abstract]]"]]"""
+else="[[!paste id=abstract]]"]]
+
+[[!cut id="abstract" text="""
+> General-purpose operating systems not only fail to provide adaptive
+> applications the information they need to intelligently adapt, but also
+> schedule resources in such a way that were applications to aggressively
+> adapt, resources would be inappropriately scheduled.  The problem is that
+> these systems use demand as the primary indicator of utility, which is a poor
+> indicator of utility for adaptive applications.
+
+> We present a resource management framework appropriate for traditional as
+> well as adaptive applications.  The primary difference from current
+> schedulers is the use of stakeholder preferences in addition to demand.  We
+> also show how to revoke memory, compute the amount of memory available to
+> each principal, and account shared memory.  Finally, we introduce a prototype
+> system, Viengoos, and present some benchmarks that demonstrate that it can
+> efficiently support multiple aggressively adaptive applications
+> simultaneously.
+"""]]
+