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HPCC
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
Achieving Performance and Availability Guarantees with Spot Instances
Abstract—In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, spot instances refer to virtual servers that are rented via an auction. Spot instances allow IaaS provi...
Michele Mazzucco, Marlon Dumas
SSS
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
From Local Impact Functions to Global Adaptation of Service Compositions
Abstract. The problem of self-optimization and adaptation in the context of customizable systems is becoming increasingly important with the emergence of complex software systems a...
Liliana Rosa, Luís Rodrigues, Antóni...
ISPDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Practical Uniform Peer Sampling under Churn
—Providing independent uniform samples from a system population poses considerable problems in highly dynamic settings, like P2P systems, where the number of participants and the...
Roberto Baldoni, Marco Platania, Leonardo Querzoni...
3DIM
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Surround Structured Lighting for Full Object Scanning
This paper presents a new system for acquiring complete 3D surface models using a single structured light projector, a pair of planar mirrors, and one or more synchronized cameras...
Douglas Lanman, Daniel E. Crispell, Gabriel Taubin
HPCC
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Resource Leasing and the Art of Suspending Virtual Machines
Using virtual machines as a resource provisioning mechanism offers multiple benefits, most recently exploited by “infrastructure-as-a-service” clouds, but also poses several...
Borja Sotomayor, Rubén S. Montero, Ignacio ...