The rise of the software-as-a-service paradigm has led to the development of a new breed of sophisticated, interactive applications often called Web 2.0. While web applications ha...
This paper addresses the problem of scheduling concurrent jobs on clusters where application data is stored on the computing nodes. This setting, in which scheduling computations ...
Michael Isard, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Jon Currey, Ud...
While Moore’s Law predicts the ability of semi-conductor industry to engineer smaller and more efficient transistors and circuits, there are serious issues not contemplated in t...
Javier Carretero, Pedro Chaparro, Xavier Vera, Jau...
Web 2.0 represents the evolution of the web from a source of information to a platform. Network advances have permitted users to migrate from desktop applications to so-called Ric...
Priya Nagpurkar, William Horn, U. Gopalakrishnan, ...
Building on the work of games theorists and virtual world designers, this paper proposes a framework for understanding the real-virtual dichotomy in terms of a series of five fram...