In the Internet today, users and applications must often make decisions based on the performance they expect to receive from other Internet hosts. For example, users can often vie...
We develop a variant of the Nelder-Mead (NM) simplex search procedure for stochastic simulation optimization that is designed to avoid many of the weaknesses encumbering such dire...
Evaluating competing technologies on a common problem set is a powerful way to improve the state of the art and hasten technology transfer. Yet poorly designed evaluations can was...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Web caching keeps single Web objects ready somewhere in caches in the user-to-server path, whereas database caching uses fullfledged database management systems as caches to adapt...