Online collaboration and sharing is the central theme of many webbased services that create the so-called Web 2.0 phenomena. Using the Internet as a computing platform, many Web 2...
Jiangming Yang, Haixun Wang, Ning Gu, Yiming Liu, ...
Given a set of machines and a set of Web applications with dynamically changing demands, an online application placement controller decides how many instances to run for each appl...
Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Mike Spreitze...
Today most Internet services are pre-assigned to servers statically, hence preventing us from doing real-time sharing of a pool of servers across as group of services with dynamic...
The problem of disk declustering is to distribute data among multiple disks to reduce query response times through parallel I/O. A strictly optimal declustering technique is one t...
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Aravind Ramachandran, Ali S...
Data de-duplication has become a commodity component in dataintensive systems and it is required that these systems provide high reliability comparable to others. Unfortunately, b...
Chuanyi Liu, Yu Gu, Linchun Sun, Bin Yan, Dongshen...