Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significa...
Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, ...
This paper introduces a transparent self-configuring architecture for automatic scaling with temperature awareness in the database tier of a dynamic content web server. We use a ...
Saeed Ghanbari, Gokul Soundararajan, Jin Chen, Cri...
Automatic management of large-scale production systems requires a continuous monitoring service to keep track of the states of the managed system. However, it is challenging to ac...
There is an emerging market interest in service provisioning over dense Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs), i.e., limited spatial regions, such as shopping malls, airports, and unive...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Eugenio Magistr...
A number of applications that use GIS for decision support can potentially be enhanced by the use of high-performance computers, broadband networks and mass data stores. We descri...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. Ja...