High availability (HA) computing has recently gained much attention, especially in enterprise and mission critical systems. The HA is now a necessity that is no longer regarded as...
Abstract. Our work focuses on distributed software services and their requirements in terms of system performance and dependability. We target the problem of finding optimal deploy...
Modeling the beyond-topical aspects of relevance are currently gaining popularity in IR evaluation. For example, the discounted cumulated gain (DCG) measure implicitly models some...
In this paper, we propose a new type of image feature, which consists of patterns of colors and intensities that capture the latent associations among images and primitive feature...
Many applications operate on time-sensitive data. Some of these data are only valid for certain intervals (e.g., job-assignments, versions of software code), others describe tempor...