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PE
2010
Springer
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Modeling TCP throughput: An elaborated large-deviations-based model and its empirical validation
In today's Internet, a large part of the traffic is carried using the TCP transport protocol. Characterization of the variations of TCP traffic is thus a major challenge, bot...
Patrick Loiseau, Paulo Gonçalves, Julien Ba...
PE
2010
Springer
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Generalized ERSS tree model: Revisiting working sets
Accurately characterizing the resource usage of an application at various levels in the memory hierarchy has been a long-standing research problem. Existing characterization studi...
Ricardo Koller, Akshat Verma, Raju Rangaswami
PE
2010
Springer
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Optimality analysis of energy-performance trade-off for server farm management
A central question in designing server farms today is how to efficiently provision the number of servers to extract the best performance under unpredictable demand patterns while ...
Anshul Gandhi, Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, Mi...
PE
2010
Springer
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A unified framework for the bottleneck analysis of multiclass queueing networks
We introduce a new framework supporting the bottleneck analysis of closed, multiclass BCMP queueing networks in the limiting regime where the number of jobs proportionally grows t...
Jonatha Anselmi, Paolo Cremonesi
PE
2010
Springer
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High-level approach to modeling of observed system behavior
Current computer systems and communication networks tend to be highly complex, and they typically hide their internal structure from their users. Thus, for selected aspects of cap...
Thomas Begin, Alexandre Brandwajn, Bruno Baynat, B...
PE
2010
Springer
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Evaluating fluid semantics for passive stochastic process algebra cooperation
Fluid modelling is a next-generation technique for analysing massive performance models. Passive cooperation is a popular cooperation mechanism frequently used by performance engi...
Richard A. Hayden, Jeremy T. Bradley
PE
2010
Springer
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Short-term fairness and long-term QoS in the Internet
We consider connection-level models of resource allocation in a simple symmetric three-link network, where files arrive into the network according to a Poisson process and the siz...
Bo Tan, Lei Ying, R. Srikant
PE
2010
Springer
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Performance evaluation of component-based software systems: A survey
Performance prediction and measurement approaches for component-based software systems help software architects to evaluate their systems based on component performance specificat...
Heiko Koziolek
ICGA
2010
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From Chinese Room to Human Window
The debate in philosophy and cognitive science about the Chinese Room Argument has focused on whether it shows that machines can have minds. We present a quantitative argument whi...
Maarten van Emden, André Vellino

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Learning Based Digital Matting
Description =========== This package contains the major source code of a demo for our learning based digital image matting technique (as detailed in the below paper). @InPro...