Energy expenditure has become a significant fraction of data center operating costs. Recently, “geographical load balancing” has been suggested to reduce energy cost by explo...
Zhenhua Liu, Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Steven H....
Systems are becoming exceedingly complex to manage. As such, there is an increasing trend towards developing systems that are self-managing. Policy-based infrastructures have been ...
Sandeep Uttamchandani, Carolyn L. Talcott, David P...
Ambient Intelligence is a research area that has gained a lot of attention in recent years. One of the most important issues for ambient intelligent systems is to perceive the envi...
This paper addresses two important challenges for current P2P systems, namely churn and selfishness. First, we report on a system [19] whose desirable properties (small peer degre...
Stefan Schmid, Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Moscibroda, Rog...
A system composed of multiple interacting components is capable of responding to contextual information and producing a higher range of non-linear responses to stimuli compared to...