—One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those servic...
MapReduce is a computing paradigm that has gained a lot of attention in recent years from industry and research. Unlike parallel DBMSs, MapReduce allows non-expert users to run co...
Background: The search for cluster structure in microarray datasets is a base problem for the so-called “-omic sciences”. A difficult problem in clustering is how to handle da...
The advent of emerging technologies such as Web services, serviceoriented architecture, and cloud computing has enabled us to perform business services more efficiently and effec...
Abstract—In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, spot instances refer to virtual servers that are rented via an auction. Spot instances allow IaaS provi...