Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Emulation plays a central role in the performance evaluation, capacity planning, and workload characterization of servers and data centers. Emulation tools usually require develop...
Hani Jamjoom, Chang-Hao Tsai, Kang G. Shin, Sharad...
Three-tier middleware architecture is commonly used for hosting enterprise-distributed applications. Typically, the application is decomposed into three layers: front end, middle t...
Achmad I. Kistijantoro, Graham Morgan, Santosh K. ...
An increasingly large amount of such applications employ service objects such as Servlets to generate dynamic and personalized content. Existing caching infrastructures are not we...