The World-Wide Web consists not only of informational, but also computational resources. However, these resources, especially computational ones are underutilized. One characteris...
Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...
Providing scalable database services is an essential requirement for extending many existing applications of the Cloud platform. Due to the diversity of applications, database ser...
Jinbao Wang, Sai Wu, Hong Gao, Jianzhong Li, Beng ...
We present a flexible query allocation framework, called Satisfaction-based Query Allocation (SbQA for short), for distributed information systems where both consumers and provider...
Abstract. Virtualization technology has become commonplace in modern data centers and cluster systems, often referred as “computing clouds”. In particular, the capability of vi...
William Voorsluys, James Broberg, Srikumar Venugop...