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Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
This article shows that the creation of cyberworlds (interactive virtual environments) can be an excellent educational tool covering a wide range of computer science and engineeri...
—Cloud computing has emerged as a new technology that provides large amount of computing and data storage capacity to its users with a promise of increased scalability, high avai...
Nezih Yigitbasi, Alexandru Iosup, Dick H. J. Epema...
In emerging Web2.0 applications such as virtual worlds or social networking websites, the number of users is very important (tens of thousands), hence the amount of data to manage...