Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
Abstract. This paper describes a new way of implementing an intelligent web caching service, based on an analysis of usage. Since the cache size in software is limited, and the sea...
Managing problem tickets is a key issue in the IT services industry. A large service provider may handle thousands of problem tickets from its customer on daily basis. The efficie...
Qihong Shao, Yi Chen, Shu Tao, Xifeng Yan, Nikos A...
Abstract. In this paper, we identify issues and present solutions developed – both theoretical and experimental – during the course of developing a data stream management syste...
Exploiting spatial locality is critical for a disk scheduler to achieve high throughput. Because of the high cost of disk head seeks and the non-preemptible nature of request serv...