1) The document discusses quality of service (QoS)-aware data replication for data-intensive applications in cloud computing systems. It aims to minimize data replication cost and number of QoS violated replicas.
2) It presents a mathematical model and algorithm to optimally place QoS-satisfied and QoS-violated data replicas. The algorithm uses minimum-cost maximum flow to obtain the optimal placement.
3) The algorithm takes as input a set of requested nodes and outputs the optimal placement for QoS-satisfied and QoS-violated replicas by modeling the problem as a network flow graph and applying existing polynomial-time algorithms.