Performance evaluation tools enable analysts to shed light on how applications behave both from a general point of view and at concrete execution points, but cannot provide detaile...
This paper studies parallel job scheduling in a distributed system. A simulation model is used to address performance issues associated with scheduling. Five policies are used to ...
Although queueing models have long been used to model the performance of computer systems, they are out of favor with practitioners, because they have a reputation for requiring u...
This paper describes an approach to the feature location problem for distributed systems, that is, to the problem of locating which code components are important in providing a pa...
Abstract. Processing and analyzing large volumes of data plays an increasingly important role in many domains of scienti c research. We are developing a compiler which processes da...
Renato Ferreira, Gagan Agrawal, Ruoming Jin, Joel ...