When users flood in cloud data centers, how to efficiently manage hardware resources and
virtual machines (VMs) in a data center to both lower economical cost and ensure a high …

Smart phones are now capable of supporting a wide range of applications, many of which
demand an ever increasing computational power. This poses a challenge because smart …

Being intensively studied, visual tracking has seen great recent advances in either speed
(eg, with correlation filters) or accuracy (eg, with deep features). Real-time and high …

Mobile computing continuously evolve through the sustained effort of many researchers. It
seamlessly augments users' cognitive abilities via compute-intensive capabilities such as …

We propose a new type of saliency—context-aware saliency—which aims at detecting the
image regions that represent the scene. This definition differs from previous definitions …

Numerous systems have been designed which use virtualization to subdivide the ample
resources of a modern computer. Some require specialized hardware, or cannot support …

Migrating operating system instances across distinct physical hosts is a useful tool for
administrators of data centers and clusters: It allows a clean separation between hardware …

Distributed and Cloud Computing: From Parallel Processing to the Internet of Things offers
complete coverage of modern distributed computing technology including clusters, the grid …

Disk-based deduplication storage has emerged as the new-generation storage system for
enterprise data protection to replace tape libraries. Deduplication removes redundant data …

A dynamic server migration and consolidation algorithm is introduced. The algorithm is
shown to provide substantial improvement over static server consolidation in reducing the …