Internet workload is a mix of many and complex sources. Therefore, its accurate and realistic
replication is a difficult and challenging task. Such difficulties are exacerbated by the …

The growth and evolution of the World Wide Web (WWW) has been rapid over the last ten
years and this has been caused mainly by factors such as the social Web and mobile …

The growing demand for performance observed in many organisations can still be
considered the main motivator for the evolution of high performance computing and, more …

The increasing popularity of web applications has introduced a new paradigm where users
are no longer passive web consumers but they become active contributors to the web …

From the very beginning of the origins of the Web at CERN, one big question remains
unanswered: What is the optimum structure and content of a web site in order to attract the …

Performance is one of the key factors of web application success. Nowadays, users expect
constant availability and immediate response following their actions. To meet those …

In this paper, a new timing-driven placement algorithm is proposed to handle complicated
placement requirements inherent in FPGAs with heterogeneous resources (dedicated logic …

Although the traditional knowledge representation based on rules is simple and explicit, it is
not effective in the field of syndrome differentiation in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) …

Motivation Utilities for generating artificial (synthetic) loads are very important for analyses of
performance and behavior of networks and their offered services. Load generators …

Given its complexity, understanding the behavior of users on the Web has been one of the
most challenging tasks for data mining-related fields. Historically, most of the approaches …