Kimberley enables rapid software provisioning of fixed infrastructure for transient use by a mobile device. It uses virtual machine (VM) technology, but avoids the performance cha...
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Energy consumption in hosting Internet services is becoming a pressing issue as these services scale up. Dynamic server provisioning techniques are effective in turning off unnece...
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Many problems require repeated inference on probabilistic graphical models, with different values for evidence variables or other changes. Examples of such problems include utilit...
In the form of topic discussions, users interact with each other to share knowledge and exchange information in online forums. Modeling the evolution of topic discussion reveals h...
Hao Wu, Jiajun Bu, Chun Chen, Can Wang, Guang Qiu,...
PPLive is a popular P2P video system used daily by millions of people worldwide. Achieving this level of scalability depends on users making contributions to the system, but curre...
Michael Piatek, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Arun Venkata...