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CLOUDCOM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Cost-Optimal Outsourcing of Applications into the Clouds
Abstract--Commercial services for provisioning software components and virtual infrastructure in the cloud are emerging. For customers, this creates a multitude of possibilities fo...
Immanuel Trummer, Frank Leymann, Ralph Mietzner, W...
HICSS
2008
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Tag Clouds: Data Analysis Tool or Social Signaller?
We examine the recent information visualization phenomenon known as tag clouds, which are an interesting combination of data visualization, web design element, and social marker. ...
Marti A. Hearst, Daniela Karin Rosner
JGTOOLS
2006
111views more  JGTOOLS 2006»
13 years 9 months ago
Stochastic Billboard Clouds for Interactive Foliage Rendering
We render tree foliage levels of detail (LODs) using a new adaptation of billboard clouds. Our contributions are a simple and efficient billboard cloud creation algorithm designed...
J. Dylan Lacewell, David Edwards, Peter Shirley, W...
FGCS
2011
149views more  FGCS 2011»
13 years 4 months ago
Adaptive resource provisioning for read intensive multi-tier applications in the cloud
A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, current SLAs offered by cloud infrastructure providers do ...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
CLOUDCOM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A Comparison and Critique of Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and Nimbus
Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and Nimbus are three major open-source cloud-computing software platforms. The overall function of these systems is to manage the provisioning of virtual ma...
Peter Sempolinski, Douglas Thain