—Resource provisioning for N-tier web applications in Clouds is non-trivial due to at least two reasons. First, there is an inherent optimization conflict between cost of resour...
PengCheng Xiong, Zhikui Wang, Simon Malkowski, Qin...
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
We extend an approach to search inside large-scale music collections by enabling the user to give feedback on the retrieved music pieces. In the original approach, a search engine ...
Content Distribution Overlays improves end-user performance by replicating Web contents on a group of geographically distributed sites interconnected over the Internet. However, w...
Abstract— We investigate a widely popular Least-RecentlyUsed (LRU) cache replacement algorithm with semi-Markov modulated requests. Semi-Markov processes provide the flexibility...