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Humanitarian aid efforts in response to natural and man-made disasters often involve complicated logistical challenges. Problems such as communication failures, damaged infrastructure, violence, looting, and corrupt officials are examples of obstacles that aid organizations face. The inability to plan relief operations during disaster situations leads to greater human suffering and wasted resources...
A recent trend for data-intensive computations is to use pay-as-you-go execution environments that scale transparently to the user. However, providers of such environments must tackle the challenge of configuring their system to provide maximal performance while minimizing the cost of resources used. In this paper, we use statistical models to predict resource requirements for Cloud computing applications...
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