— With the expansion of cloud-based services, the question as to how to control usage of such large distributed systems has become increasingly important. Load balancing (LB), an...
The recent movement by major Web services towards making many application programming interfaces (APIs) available for public use has led to the development of the new MashUp techno...
Andreas Auinger, Martin Ebner, Dietmar Nedbal, And...
Performance management of clusters and Grids poses many challenges. Sharing large distributed sets of resources can provide efficiencies, but it also introduces complexity in ter...
Quality of service for high-bandwidth or delay-sensitive applications in the Internet, such as streaming media and online games, can be significantly improved by replicating serv...
Information resources on the Web like videos, images, and documents are increasingly becoming more “social” through user engagement via commenting systems. These commenting sy...