—Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hun...
As software becomes increasingly complex and difficult to analyze, it is more and more common for developers to use high-level, type-safe, object-oriented (OO) programming langua...
Accurately predicting program behaviors (e.g., locality, dependency, method calling frequency) is fundamental for program optimizations and runtime adaptations. Despite decades of...
Kai Tian, Yunlian Jiang, Eddy Z. Zhang, Xipeng She...
We consider a push pull queueing system with two servers and two types of jobs which are processed by the two servers in opposite order, with stochastic generally distributed proc...
In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...