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We introduce the X-Flex cross-platform scheduler. X-Flex is intended as an alternative to the Dominant Resource Fairness (DRF) scheduler currently employed by both YARN and Mesos. There are multiple design differences between X-Flex and DRF. For one ...

Location based smartphone services such as maps and context-aware advertisements are increasingly becoming popular. However, a major limitation of these services is that they tend to consume significant power due to the usage of power-hungry GPS ...

Most of the contextual dependent applications require high level location attributes in terms of places and routes, more than just fine-grained latitude and longitude. Currently, these applications perform place discovery and recognition in an isolated ...

Previous studies on automatic database partitioning mostly focus on optimizing the (re)partitioning scheme for a given database and its query workload, while overseeing the problem about how to efficiently deploy the partition scheme onto the database ...

Enterprises are increasingly moving their IT infrastructures to the Cloud, driven by the promise of low-cost access to ready-to-use, elastic resources. Given the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of enterprise IT environments, a rapid and accurate ...