One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...
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Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anders...
Recent advances in Dynamic Power Management (DPM) techniques have resulted in designs that support a rich set of power management options, both at the hardware and software levels...
Shrirang M. Yardi, Karthik Channakeshava, Michael ...
Most of the current methodologies for building ontologies rely on specialized knowledge engineers. This is in contrast to real-world settings, where the need for maintenance of do...
Simone Braun, Andreas Schmidt, Andreas Walter, G&a...
In this paper, we discuss several facets of optimization in cloud computing, the corresponding challenges and propose an architecture for addressing those challenges. We consider ...
Marin Litoiu, C. Murray Woodside, Johnny Wong, Joa...