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HUC
1999
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
QoS and Context Awareness for Mobile Computing
Systems must provide for mobile applications to be aware of the context in which they are being used. This is necessary to permit adaptation to heterogeneity of hosts and networks...
Dan Chalmers, Morris Sloman
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
242views Database» more  SIGMOD 2012»
11 years 10 months ago
Dynamic management of resources and workloads for RDBMS in cloud: a control-theoretic approach
As cloud computing environments become explosively popular, dealing with unpredictable changes, uncertainties, and disturbances in both systems and environments turns out to be on...
Pengcheng Xiong
IWQOS
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Yaksha: a self-tuning controller for managing the performance of 3-tiered Web sites
— Managing the performance of multiple-tiered Web sites under high client loads is a critical problem with the advent of dynamic content and database-driven servers on the Intern...
Abhinav Kamra, Vishal Misra, Erich M. Nahum
HEURISTICS
1998
252views more  HEURISTICS 1998»
13 years 7 months ago
Constraint Handling in Genetic Algorithms: The Set Partitioning Problem
In this paper we present a genetic algorithm-based heuristic for solving the set partitioning problem (SPP). The SPP is an important combinatorial optimisation problem used by man...
P. C. Chu, J. E. Beasley
ICSE
1993
IEEE-ACM
13 years 12 months ago
"...And Nothing Else Changes": The Frame Problem in Procedure Specifications
We give examples of situations where formal specifications of procedures in the standard pre/postcondition style become lengthy, cumbersome and difficult to change, a problem whic...
Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos, Raymond Reiter