There exist multitudes of cloud performance metrics, including workload performance, application placement, software/hardware optimization, scalability, capacity, reliability, agility and so on. In this paper, we consider jointly optimizing the performance of the software applications in the cloud. The challenges lie in bringing a diversity of raw data into tidy data format, unifying performanc...

The Semantic Web is composed of applications that share, exchange and link self-describing data (instead of text) via the World Wide Web rendering it a kind of global, distributed database – with a lot of semi-tidy information in it that may also allude to very different conceptualisations. To formally specify the data and the conceptualisation, there exists an architectural agreement in form o...

THIS book quickly reveals to anyone who has to see such injuries the wide experience and skill that the authors have to draw on. It is full of helpful clinical and practical operative advice where this is sought, but the real message of this edition seems to be encouragement to undertake more meticulous and extensive primary repairs. The classification of hand wounds into "Tidy and Untidy" imme...

PRAXIS embodies a computer language for reproducing design calculations in a paginated and tidy layout suitable for submission to a checking authority. Some calculations reproduced by PRAXIS are illustrated in Fig. 1. From the calculations alone it would be impossible to tell whether the page came from a typewriter (being copied from a designer's hand-written calculations) or from a computer, b...

Manja Lohse Human Media Interaction University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands [email protected] Vanessa Evers Human Media Interaction University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands [email protected] Abstract Imagine a room with toys scattered on the floor and a robot that is motivating a small group of children to tidy up. This scenario poses real-world challenges for the robot, e.g., th...