Control methods are being used increasingly for uncertainty management and QoS in modern web server systems. Previous approaches have suggested combined feedforward and feedback c...
Enterprises today wish to manage their IT resources so as to optimize business objectives, such as income, rather than IT metrics, such as response times. Therefore, we introduce ...
Slowdown is used to measure the fairness degree of a scheduling algorithm in existing work. However, the fairness degree should be considered within a scheduling algorithm; rather...
This paper investigates a complexity-effective technique for verifying a highly distributed directory-based cache coherence protocol. We develop a novel approach called “witnes...
Integration is important in politics, business, and technology. In all these fields, the definition of integration is vague. We build a formal measure of integration based on the ...