This paper investigates the problem of Partitioning Skew1 in MapReduce-based system. Our studies with Hadoop, a widely used MapReduce implementation, demonstrate that the presence ...
Shadi Ibrahim, Hai Jin, Lu Lu, Song Wu, Bingsheng ...
—Cloud resources are usually priced in multiple markets with different service guarantees. For example, Amazon EC2 prices virtual instances under three pricing schemes — the su...
Recently, simulation of natural phenomena, such as water, smokes, fire, clouds, have been attempted in computer graphics. Clouds play an important role when generating images of o...
There is a rapid increase in the size of data centres (DCs) used to provide cloud computing services. It is commonly agreed that not all properties in the middleware that manages D...
Abstract. Stereo cameras, laser rangers and other time-of-flight ranging devices are utilized with increasing frequency as they can provide information in the 3D plane. The abilit...