Most online evolution of application depends on its runtime environment. This paper addresses how to support online evolution by application server, which is considered as third k...
— The increasing heterogeneity, dynamism, and uncertainty of emerging DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) systems imply that an application must be able to detect and adapt t...
The focus of this work is on the estimation of quality of service (QoS) parameters seen by an application. Our proposal is based on end-to-end active measurements and statistical ...
Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an “advanced outsourcing” solu...
Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Rajkumar Buyy...
We address performance issues associated with simulationbased algorithms for optimizing Markov reward processes. Specifically, we are concerned with algorithms that exploit the re...