We introduce and evaluate a middleware clustering technology capable of allocating resources to web applications through dynamic application instance placement. We define applicat...
A. Karve, Tracy Kimbrel, Giovanni Pacifici, Mike S...
Modifying an application usually means to stop the application, apply the changes, and start the application again. That means, the application is not available for at least a sho...
In robotic soccer, teams of autonomous robots play soccer according to rules similar to the official FIFA rules. The game is refereed by a human and his orders are communicated to ...
Since the advent of electronic computing, the processors’ clock speed has risen tremendously. Now that energy efficiency requirements have stopped that trend, the number of proc...
The multi-vehicle covering tour problem is de"ned on a graph G"(<6=, E), where = is a set of vertices that must collectively be covered by up to m vehicles. The probl...
Mondher Hachicha, M. John Hodgson, Gilbert Laporte...