Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
As the number of available Web pages grows, users experience increasing difficulty finding documents relevant to their interests. One of the underlying reasons for this is that mo...
Energy efficiency is rapidly becoming a first class optimization parameter for modern systems. Caches are critical to the overall performance and thus, modern processors (both hig...
A data–intensive Web application is a Web-enabled software system for the publication and management of large data collections, typically stored in one or more database manageme...
Energy-aware compilers are becoming increasingly important for embedded systems due to the need to meet conflicting constraints on time, code size and power consumption. We intro...