VMware ESX Server is a thin software layer designed to multiplex hardware resources efficiently among virtual machines running unmodified commodity operating systems. This paper i...
Abstract—Modern service-oriented systems have increasingly complex loosely-coupled architectures that often exhibit poor performance and resource efficiency and have high operat...
Samuel Kounev, Fabian Brosig, Nikolaus Huber, Ralf...
Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...
Operational Risk management, the least covered component of Enterprise Wide Risk Management, needs intelligent tools to implement Comprehensive Emergency Management Programs. In t...
: This paper discusses the issues and promising approaches in (1) obtaining rigorous specifications of the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements associated with application functio...