Handling flash-crowd events to improve the performance of Web applications

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 13-17-April-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages 769-774

  De Paula, Ubiratam ^a   Drummond, Lúcia M A ^a   De Oliveira, Daniel ^a   Frota, Yuri ^a   Barbosa, Valmir C ^b  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Flash crowd; Iterated local search; Optimization; Self dimensioning

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTING RESOURCE; FLASH CROWD; FLASH CROWD EVENTS; HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCES; INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS; ITERATED LOCAL SEARCH; SELF DIMENSIONING;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84955489039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2695664.2695839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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