The simplicity of the basic client/server model of Web services led quickly to its widespread adoption, but also to scalability and performance problems. The technological respons...
Micah Beck, Terry Moore, Leif Abrahamsson, Christo...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
Mobile devices are increasingly being relied on for services that go beyond simple connectivity and require more complex processing. Fortunately, a mobile device encounters, possi...
Cong Shi, Vasileios Lakafosis, Mostafa H. Ammar, E...
Resource sharing can cause unfair and unpredictable performance of concurrently executing applications in Chip-Multiprocessors (CMP). The shared last-level cache is one of the mos...
Irregular applications, which rely on pointer-based data structures, are often difficult to parallelize. The inputdependent nature of their execution means that traditional paral...