Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved res...
Sameh Elnikety, Erich M. Nahum, John M. Tracey, Wi...
This paper investigates the influence of interface styles on problem solving performance. It is often assumed that performance on problem solving tasks improves when users are ass...
Christof van Nimwegen, Daniel D. Burgos, Herre van...
Abstract—Efficiently locating information in large-scale distributed systems is a challenging problem to which Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) can provide a hi...
Solid State Disks (SSDs) are superior to magnetic disks from a performance point of view due to the favorable features of NAND flash memory. Furthermore, thanks to improvement on...
Jinho Seol, Hyotaek Shim, Jaegeuk Kim, Seungryoul ...