Garbage collection, if not tuned properly, can considerably impact application performance.
Unfortunately, configuring a garbage collector is a tedious task as only few guidelines exist …

ORCA is a concurrent and parallel garbage collector for actor programs, which does not
require any STW steps, or synchronization mechanisms, and that has been designed to …

We propose a new, principled approach to adaptive heap sizing based on control theory.
We review current state-of-the-art heap sizing mechanisms, as deployed in Jikes RVM and …

Big Data is characterized by the increasing volume (of the order of zeta bytes) and velocity of
data generation. It is projected that the market size of Big Data shall climb up to 53.7 …

Optimal resource provisioning is essential for scalable big data analytics. However, it has
been difficult to accurately forecast the resource requirements before the actual deployment …

Modern computer applications, especially at enterprise-level, are commonly deployed with a
big number of clustered instances to achieve a higher system performance, in which case …

Nowadays, clustered environments are commonly used in high‐performance computing and
enterprise‐level applications to achieve faster response time and higher throughput than …

High-Assurance applications usually require achieving fast response time and high
throughput on a constant basis. To fulfil these stringent quality of service requirements, these …

High-level language runtimes are ubiquitous in every cloud deployment. From the geo-
distributed heavy resources cloud provider to the new Fog and Edge deployment …

Resource management in Cloud Computing has been dominated by system-level virtual
machines to enable the management of resources using a coarse grained approach, largely …