To optimize the cost and performance of complex cloud services under dynamic requirements, workflows and diverse cloud offerings, we rely on different elasticity control processes. An elasticity control process, when being enforced, produces effects in different parts of the cloud service. These effects normally evolve in time and depend on workload characteristics, and on the actions within th...

Elasticity is the foundation of cloud performance and can be considered as a great advantage and a key beneNt of cloud computing. However, there is no clear, concise, and formal deNnition of elasticity measurement, and thus no ePective approach to elasticity quantiNcation has been developed so far. Existing work on elasticity lack of solid and technical way of deNning elasticity measurement and...

this paper studies the dynamic behavior of price elasticity and its effects on the overall profit. although price elasticity has a significant effect on sales, its dynamics have not been examined so far in pricing models. in this paper, a simple pricing model is suggested in which, price elasticity is considered dynamic. the suggested pricing model is concerned with a monopolist that its object...

One of the major challenges in cloud computing is to simplify the monitoring and control of elasticity. On the one hand, the user should be able to specify complex elasticity requirements in a simple way and to monitor and analyze elasticity behavior based on his/her requirements. On the other hand, supporting tools for controlling and monitoring elasticity must be able to capture and control c...

This paper presents an efficient hardware-accelerated method for novel view synthesis from a set of images or videos. Our method is based on the photo hull representation, which is the maximal photo-consistent shape. We avoid the explicit reconstruction of photo hulls by adopting a view-dependent plane-sweeping strategy. From the target viewpoint slicing planes are rendered with reference views...

Data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC are used to measure the lifetimes of the B0 and B+ mesons. The data sample consists of 8.3 fb collected near the Υ (4S) resonance. B0 and B+ mesons are fully reconstructed in several exclusive hadronic decay modes to charm and charmonium final states. The B lifetimes are determined from the flight length differenc...

We summarize the results of the New Gauge Boson Subgroup on the physics of extended gauge sectors at future colliders as presented at the 1996 Snowmass workshop. We discuss the direct and indirect search reaches for new gauge bosons at both hadron and lepton colliders as well as the ability of such machines to extract detailed information on the couplings of these particles to the fermions and ...

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the 3D model of an object from a sequence of images where the object is visible from different point of views. In particular, the paper considers the case of turntable image sequences, i.e. images captured under circular motion. A new method is hence proposed for this problem, which consists of determining the image point correspondences of each 3D...

The Micro Gallery, recently installed at the National Gallery in London, Is a public-access information system. It provides a comprehensive and richly interconnected illustrated encyclopedia of the cdlectlon. The paper summarizes the choice of technology, the system architecture and design issues. The purpose of the system Is to provide a resource to enhance visitors' appreciation of the painti...