Abstract: As a promising solution to blockchain scalability, sharding divides blockchain nodes into small groups called shards, splitting the workload. Existing works for sharding, however, are ...

Abstract: Threshold based cloud auto-scaling is one of the most common methods used to scale cloud applications. A major drawback of this method is that the thresholds are set manually by the user in ...

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