User-contributed tags have shown promise as a means of indexing multimedia collections by harnessing the combined efforts and enthusiasm of online communities. But tags are only o...
Multi-agent systems have proven to be a powerful technology for building complex distributed applications. However, the process of designing, configuring and deploying agent-based...
Csongor Nyulas, Martin J. O'Connor, Samson W. Tu, ...
This paper presents accurate area and power estimation models for implementations using FPGAs from the Xilinx Virtex-2Pro family. These models are designed to facilitate efficien...
— Design of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) emerges as an increasingly important discipline in business-oriented IT management. In this work, we study utility maximization of con...
David Breitgand, Elean A. Henis, Onn Shehory, John...
In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...