As mobile computing has been developed for decades, a new model for mobile computing,
namely, mobile cloud computing, emerges resulting from the marriage of powerful yet …

Cloud spot markets enable users to bid for compute resources, such that the cloud platform
may revoke them if the market price rises too high. Due to their increased risk, revocable …

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platforms rent resources, in the form of virtual
machines (VMs), under a variety of contract terms that offer different levels of risk and cost …

Cloud providers sell their idle capacity on markets through an auction-like mechanism to
increase their return on investment. The instances sold in this way are called spot instances …

Large-scale data analytics using machine learning (ML) underpins many modern data-
driven applications. ML systems provide means of specifying and executing these ML …

Amazon offers spot instances to cloud customers using an auction-like mechanism. These
instances are dynamically priced and offered at a lower price with less guarantee of …

Cloud spot markets offer virtual machines (VMs) for a dynamic price that is much lower than
the fixed price of on-demand VMs. In exchange, spot VMs expose applications to multiple …

Spot instances were introduced by Amazon EC2 in December 2009 to sell its spare capacity
through auction based market mechanism. Despite its extremely low prices, cloud spot …

Amazon spot instances provide preemptable computing capacity at a cost that is often
significantly lower than comparable on-demand or reserved instances. Spot instances are …

In order to keep the costs of operating in-memory storage on the public cloud low, we devise
novel ideas and enabling modeling and optimization techniques for combining conventional …