This paper chronicles the collaborative efforts of Valparaiso University’s IT department and main library over the past five years. Highlights of selected resources and services...
Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute user...
The World-Wide Web consists not only of informational, but also computational resources. However, these resources, especially computational ones are underutilized. One characteris...
Abstract—Significant achievements have been made for automated allocation of cloud resources. However, the performance of applications may be poor in peak load periods, unless t...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...