Abstract--Amazon, Google, and IBM now sell cloud computing services. We consider the setting of a for-profit business selling data stream monitoring/management services and we inve...
Increasingly powerful fault management systems are required to ensure robustness and quality of service in today’s networks. In this context, event correlation is of prime impor...
The increasing use of multimedia streams nowadays necessitates the development of efficient and effective methodologies for manipulating databases storing them. Moreover, content-...
In this paper, an interactive image retrieval scheme using MPEG-7 visual descriptors is proposed. The performance of image retrieval systems is still limited due to semantic gap, w...
This paper presents a method for admission control and request scheduling for multiply-tiered e-commerce Web sites, achieving both stable behavior during overload and improved res...
Sameh Elnikety, Erich M. Nahum, John M. Tracey, Wi...