A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for specific quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, current SLAs offered by cloud infrastructure providers do ...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
Many adaptative context-aware middleware exist and mostly rely on so-called vertical architectures that offer a functional decomposition for context-awareness. This architecture ...
Nicolas Ferry, Stephane Lavirotte, Jean-Yves Tigli...
Emulation plays a central role in the performance evaluation, capacity planning, and workload characterization of servers and data centers. Emulation tools usually require develop...
Hani Jamjoom, Chang-Hao Tsai, Kang G. Shin, Sharad...
These last years, the evolution of nomadic terminals and mobile networks has yield to the development of the ubiquitous computing. In this context, actual query evaluation and opt...
In data centers hosting scaling Internet applications, operators face the tradeoff dilemma between resource efficiency and Quality of Service (QoS), and the root cause lies in wo...