Cloud computing offers users the ability to access large pools of computational and storage resources on demand. Multiple commercial clouds already allow businesses to replace, or...
Cloud systems require elastic resource allocation to minimize resource provisioning costs while meeting service level objectives (SLOs). In this paper, we present a novel PRedictiv...
1 Multi-paradigm, multi-threaded and multi-core computing devices available today provide several orders of magnitude performance improvement over mainstream microprocessors. These...
Jeremy S. Meredith, Sadaf R. Alam, Jeffrey S. Vett...
The lip-region can be interpreted as either a genetic or behavioural biometric trait depending on whether static or dynamic information is used. In this paper, we use a texture de...
Budhaditya Goswami, Chi-Ho Chan, Josef Kittler, Wi...
Developing dispatching rules for manufacturing systems is a tedious process, which is time- and cost-consuming. Since there is no good general rule for different scenarios and ob...