With the commoditization of digital devices, personal information and media sharing is becoming a key application on the pervasive Web. In such a context, data annotation rather th...
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adriana Budura, Manfred H...
Resource allocation is a key problem in autonomic computing. In this paper we use a data center scenario to motivate the need for decentralization and cooperative negotiation, and...
Craig Boutilier, Rajarshi Das, Jeffrey O. Kephart,...
Scheduling query execution plans is an important component of query optimization in parallel database systems. The problem is particularly complex in a shared-nothing execution en...
In many distributed environments, the primary function of monitoring software is to detect anomalies, that is, instances when system behavior deviates substantially from the norm....
Shipra Agrawal, Supratim Deb, K. V. M. Naidu, Raje...
In emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites, the number of users is very important (tens of thousands), hence the amount of data to manage...