Recently there has been a renewed interest in the application of economic models to the management of computational resources. Most of this interest is focused on pricing models f...
Subtle implementation errors or mis-configurations in complex Internet services may lead to performance degradations without causing failures. These undiscovered performance anomal...
Christopher Stewart, Kai Shen, Arun Iyengar, Jian ...
The wide popularity of free-and-easy keyword based searches over World Wide Web has fueled the demand for incorporating keyword-based search over structured databases. However, mo...
Bei Yu, Guoliang Li, Karen R. Sollins, Anthony K. ...
In this paper, we explore mechanisms for defending against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, have become one of the major threats to the operation of the Internet toda...
Yao Chen, Shantanu Das, Pulak Dhar, Abdulmotaleb E...
It is challenging to process transactions in a timely fashion using fresh data, e.g., current stock prices, since database workloads may considerably vary due to dynamic data/reso...