— Accurate query performance prediction (QPP) is central to effective resource management, query optimization and query scheduling. Analytical cost models, used in current genera...
Recent advances in virtualization technologies have made it feasible to host multiple virtual machines (VMs) in the same physical host and even the same CPU core, with fair share ...
Cong Xu, Sahan Gamage, Pawan N. Rao, Ardalan Kanga...
Today's complex applications must face the distribution of data and code among different network nodes. Computation in distributed contexts is demanding increasingly powerful...
This paper presents a set of architectures for the composition of ubiquitous computing applications. It describes research that is being carried out in "extrovert-Gadgets&quo...
To achieve the ever increasing demand for science return, planetary exploration rovers require more autonomy to successfully perform their missions. Indeed, the communication dela...