Efficient application placement in a dynamic hosting platform

WWW'09 - Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 281-290

  Al Qudah, Zakaria ^a   Alzoubi, Hussein A ^a   Allman, Mark ^b   Rabinovich, Michael ^a   Liberatore, Vincenzo ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Application servers; Dynamic placement; Startup performance; Web hosting

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SERVERS; DEMAND CHANGES; VARIABLE NUMBER; WEB HOSTING;

COST REDUCTION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84862958650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1526709.1526748     Document Type: Conference Paper

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