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ICAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Dynamic Provisioning of Multi-tier Internet Applications
Dynamic capacity provisioning is a useful technique for handling the multi-time-scale variations seen in Internet workloads. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic provisioning...
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Prashant J. Shenoy, Abhishek Cha...
ISI
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
How Question Answering Technology Helps to Locate Malevolent Online Content
The inherent lack of control over the Internet content resulted in proliferation of online material that can be potentially detrimental. For example, the infamous “Anarchist Coo...
Dmitri Roussinov, Jose Antonio Robles-Flores
IIE
2007
120views more  IIE 2007»
13 years 8 months ago
Words are Silver, Mouse-Clicks are Gold? (or how to optimize the level of language formalization of young students in a Logo-bas
How do we teach children to express and communicate ideas in a formal and informal mode? What type of language do they need in a concrete context? How should they determine a prope...
Evgenia Sendova, Toni Chehlarova, Pavel Boytchev
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
How to barter bits for chronons: compression and bandwidth trade offs for database scans
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...
ALGOSENSORS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Link Reversal: How to Play Better to Work Less
Sensor networks, with their ad hoc deployments, node mobility, and wireless communication, pose serious challenges for developing provably correct and efficient applications. A po...
Bernadette Charron-Bost, Jennifer L. Welch, Josef ...