Most modern RDBMS depend on the query processing optimizer’s cost model to choose the best execution plan for a given query. Since the physical IO (PIO) is a costly operation to...
The emerging paradigms of service oriented architectures and utility-based computing have the potential to greatly reduce the cost of data management. Data management service prov...
Abstract: This paper presents the information aggregation methods enabling cost- and QoS-aware service deployment. It is expected that network management tools will require the net...
The large amount of energy consumed by Internet services represents significant and fast-growing financial and environmental costs. Increasingly, services are exploring dynamic ...
Kien Le, Ozlem Bilgir, Ricardo Bianchini, Margaret...
Abstract Charging schemes are needed to protect an integrated services network from arbitrary resource reservations and to create a funding mechanism to extend network capacity at ...
Martin Karsten, Jens Schmitt, Lars C. Wolf, Ralf S...