Users often need to optimize the selection of objects by appropriately weighting the importance of multiple object attributes. Such optimization problems appear often in operation...
Vagelis Hristidis, Nick Koudas, Yannis Papakonstan...
Web proxy caching servers play a key role in today's Web infrastructure. Previous studies have shown that disk I/O is one of the major performance bottlenecks of proxy server...
Virtual machines offer the ability to partition the resources of a physical system and to create isolated execution environments. The development of virtual machines is a very ch...
Lorenzo Martignoni, Roberto Paleari, Giampaolo Fre...
The coordination of layers in computer and software systems is one of the main challenges in designing such systems today. In this paper we consider Holistic System Design as a wa...
Julia L. Lawall, Christian W. Probst, Ulrik Pagh S...
Abstract Complex real-time systems, must integrate physical processes with digital control, human operation and organizational structures. New scientific foundations are required ...