Web application workloads are often characterized by a large number of unique read requests and a significant fraction of write requests. Hosting these applications drives the ne...
When designing computer systems, simulation tools are used to imitate a real or proposed system. Complex, dynamic systems can be simulated without the cost and time constraints in...
Implementation of data mining applications is a challenging and complicated task, and the applications are often built from scratch. In this paper, a component-based application f...
Most RAID controllers implemented in industry are complicated and di cult to reason about. This complexity has led to software and hardware systems that are di cult to debug and h...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...