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...
In virtual machine environments each application is often run in its own virtual machine (VM), isolating it from other applications running on the same physical machine. Contentio...
Justin Cappos, Scott M. Baker, Jeremy Plichta, Duy...
Abstract. Computer mobility allows people to use computers in varied and changing environments. This variability forces applications to adapt thus requiring awareness of the comput...
Abstract--Conducting valid comparative evaluations of techniques in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) presents particular challenges to MIR researchers due to issues o...
Kris West, Amit Kumar, Andrew Shirk, Guojun Zhu, J...
The applicability of network-based computing depends on the availability of the underlying network bandwidth. However, network resources are shared and the available network bandw...