A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...
When investigating the performance of running scientific/ commercial workflows in parallel and distributed systems, we often take into account only the resources allocated to the ...
Ligang He, Mark Calleja, Mark Hayes, Stephen A. Ja...
This paper describes a successful but challenging application of data mining in the railway industry. The objective is to optimize maintenance and operation of trains through prog...
Real production applications ranging from enterprise applications to large e-commerce sites share a crucial but seldom-noted characteristic: The relative frequencies of transactio...
— “Word-of-Mouth”, a novel scheme for sharing the service quality experienced with different local networks, is presented and evaluated as a distributed solution for performi...