The rapid growth of the Web has made it possible to build collaborative applications on an unprecedented scale. However, the request-reply interaction model of HTTP limits the rang...
—Resource provisioning for N-tier web applications in Clouds is non-trivial due to at least two reasons. First, there is an inherent optimization conflict between cost of resour...
PengCheng Xiong, Zhikui Wang, Simon Malkowski, Qin...
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...
While several research projects have been proposed to use software agents to deal with information overload, their results are not applicable in the existing Web infrastructure ma...
Accurate topical classification of user queries allows for increased effectiveness and efficiency in general-purpose web search systems. Such classification becomes critical if th...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...