Consumers of resources in realistic applications (e.g., web, multimedia) typically derive diminishing-return utilities from the amount of resource they receive. A resource provide...
Cloud computing is quickly becoming the platform of choice for many web services. Virtualization is the key underlying technology enabling cloud providers to host services for a l...
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In Programming by Example [PBE, also sometimes called "Programming by Demonstration"] systems, the system records actions performed by a user in the interface, and produ...
Robert St. Amant, Henry Lieberman, Richard Potter,...
With the exponential growth of Web contents, Recommender System has become indispensable for discovering new information that might interest Web users. Despite their success in th...
—Clusters of identical intermediate servers are often created to improve availability and robustness in many domains. The use of proxy servers for the World Wide Web (WWW) and of...