Large-scale multiplayer online games require considerable investment in hosting infrastructures. However, the difficulty of predicting the success of a new title makes investing ...
Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...
Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even "virtual-enterprise"-style business processes across multiple organi...
This paper describes a toolset, PACE, that provides detailed predictive performance information throughout the implementation and execution stages of an application. It is structur...
Darren J. Kerbyson, John S. Harper, Efstathios Pap...
—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...