Decision making in industry continues to become more complicated. Customers are more demanding, competition is more fierce, and costs for labor and raw materials continue to rise....
The Service registry, the yellow pages of ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA), plays a central role in SOAbased service systems. The service registry has to be scalable to manage l...
Current trends in increasing storage capacity and virtualization of resources combined with the need for energy efficiency put a challenging task in front of system designers. Pre...
Lei Ye, Gen Lu, Sushanth Kumar, Chris Gniady, John...
Traditional performance models are too brittle to be relied on for continuous capacity planning and performance debugging in many computer systems. Simply put, a brittle model is ...
Well-designed indices can dramatically improve query performance. Including query workload information can produce indices that yield better overall throughput while balancing the...