In Java the de nition of a \program" is a bit fuzzy. A Java applet is essentially a Java application (i.e. program) that can be executed by a Java enabled Web browser (i.e. a...
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) middleware increasingly offers not only functional support for standard interfaces, but also the ability to optimize their resource consumption pat...
—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...
Abstract. This paper introduces a problem called the temporal knapsack problem, presents several algorithms for solving it, and compares their performance. The temporal knapsack pr...
Mark Bartlett, Alan M. Frisch, Youssef Hamadi, Ian...
—Randomization is used in computer security as a tool to introduce unpredictability into the software infrastructure. In this paper, we study the use of randomization to achieve ...