Abstract. We describe and evaluate the Running Time Advisor (RTA), a system that can predict the running time of a compute-bound task on a typical shared, unreserved commodity host...
Monitoring is an issue of primary concern in current and next generation networked systems. For example, the objective of sensor networks is to monitor their surroundings for a va...
Ram Keralapura, Graham Cormode, Jeyashankher Ramam...
In this paper we investigate dependability issues of nextgeneration distributed multimedia applications. Examples of such applications are autonomous vehicle control, telemedicine...
Domenico Cotroneo, Cristiano di Flora, Generoso Pa...
Mass causality incidents generate a sequence of response events from the emergency services, requiring the allocation and use of resources in a timely fashion. In this paper we de...
Marcus Lucas da Silva, Vassilis Kostakos, Mitsuji ...
Due to the rapid growth in the size of the web, web search engines are facing enormous performance challenges. The larger engines in particular have to be able to process tens of ...