Visual information overload is a threat to the interpretation of displays presenting large data sets or complex application environments. To combat this problem, researchers have ...
Anthony Tang, Peter McLachlan, Karen Lowe, Chalapa...
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
The task of balancing dynamically generated work load occurs in a wide range of parallel and distributed applications. Diffusion based schemes, which belong to the class of nearest...
The increasing use of the web for serving http content, for database transactions, etc. can place heavy stress on servers. Flash crowds can occur at a server when there is a burst ...
In this paper, a new I/O-aware load-balancing scheme is presented to improve overall performance of a distributed system with a general and practical workload including I/O activi...
Xiao Qin, Hong Jiang, Yifeng Zhu, David R. Swanson