Often, parallel and distributed computing systems must operate in an environment replete with uncertainty. Determining a resource allocation that accounts for this uncertainty in ...
Vladimir Shestak, Jay Smith, Howard Jay Siegel, An...
The real-time scheduling advisor (RTSA) is an entirely userlevel system that an application running on a typical shared, unreserved distributed computing environment can turn to f...
Log data constitutes a relevant aspect in the evaluation process of multilingual search services. Activity logs allow to study the usage of search engines and to better adapt them ...
Thomas Mandl, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Julia Maria...
This paper describes potential applications of multi-attribute preference models (MAPM) in e-commerce and offers some guidelines for their implementation. MAPM are methodologies f...
John C. Butler, James S. Dyer, Jianmin Jia, Kerem ...
In this paper we focus on how Quality of Service guarantees are provided to virtualised applications in the Cloud Computing infrastructure that is being developed in the context of...