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ICDCS
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Comparison of Approaches to Service Deployment
IT today is driven by the trend of increasing scale and complexity. Utility and Grid computing models, PlanetLab, and traditional data centers, are reaching the scale of thousands...
Vanish Talwar, Qinyi Wu, Calton Pu, Wenchang Yan, ...
OSDI
2008
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Improving MapReduce Performance in Heterogeneous Environments
MapReduce is emerging as an important programming model for large-scale data-parallel applications such as web indexing, data mining, and scientific simulation. Hadoop is an open-...
Matei Zaharia, Andy Konwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, ...
CEC
2010
IEEE
15 years 20 days ago
Constrained global optimization of low-thrust interplanetary trajectories
The optimization of spacecraft trajectories can be formulated as a global optimization task. The complexity of the problem depends greatly on the problem formulation, on the spacec...
Chit Hong Yam, David Di Lorenzo, Dario Izzo
MOBIDE
2006
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
GPS-Free node localization in mobile wireless sensor networks
An important problem in mobile ad-hoc wireless sensor networks is the localization of individual nodes, i.e., each node’s awareness of its position relative to the network. In t...
Hüseyin Akcan, Vassil Kriakov, Hervé B...
CSCW
1998
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Just Talk to Me: A Field Study of Expertise Location
Everyday, people in organizations must solve their problems to get their work accomplished. To do so, they often must find others with knowledge and information. Systems that assi...
David W. McDonald, Mark S. Ackerman