In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
With the rapid development of digital technology in consumer electronics, the demand to preserve raw image data for further editing or repeated compression is increasing. Traditio...
Recent progress in active measurement techniques has made it possible to estimate end-to-end path available bandwidth. However, how to efficiently obtain available bandwidth info...
Negotiation is an important mechanism of coordination in multiagent systems. Contrary to early conceptualizations of negotiating agents, we believe that decisions regarding the neg...
This paper discusses about how business intelligence on a website could be obtained from users’ access records instead of web logs of “hits”. Users’ access records are cap...