Intelligent tutoring systems have demonstrated their utility in a variety of domains. However, they are notoriously resource intensive to build. We report here on the development ...
Viswanathan Kodaganallur, Rob R. Weitz, David Rose...
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
Many complex, real world phenomena are difficult to study directly using controlled experiments. Instead, the use of computer simulations has become commonplace as a feasible alte...
Ivo Couckuyt, Dirk Gorissen, Hamed Rouhani, Eric L...
Abstract—We study the problem of dynamic resource allocation to clustered Web applications. We extend application server middleware with the ability to automatically decide the s...
David Carrera, Malgorzata Steinder, Ian Whalley, J...
When implementing an application system in a distributed computing environment, several architectural questions arise such as, how and where computing resources are distributed, a...