IOR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
: A continuous review two-echelon inventory system with a central warehouse and a number of non-identical retailers is considered. The retailers face independent Poisson demand and...
IJPP
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We present an approach to the analysis and optimisation of heterogeneous multiprocessor embedded systems. The systems are heterogeneous not only in terms of hardware components, b...
FUIN
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Policies are used to describe rules that are employed to modify (often distributed) system behaviour at runtime. Typically policies are created by many different people and there a...
EOR
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
We consider a call center with two classes of impatient customers: premium and regular classes. Modeling our call center as a multiclass GI/GI/s + M queue, we focus on developing ...
COR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
We consider a firm that faces random demand and receives product from a single supplier who faces random supply. The supplier's availability may be affected by events such as...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
We believe that to fully support adaptive distributed applications, middleware must itself be adaptable, adaptive and policy-free. In this paper we present a new language-independ...
FIS
2010
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Given the significant amount of personal information available on the Web, verifying its correct use emerges as an important issue. When personal information is published, it shoul...
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2010
ACM
Decentralized information flow control (DIFC) operating systems provide applications with mechanisms for enforcing information-flow policies for their data. However, significant o...
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2010
Springer
Despite the recent advances in planning with MDPs, the problem of generating good policies is still hard. This paper describes a way to generate policies in MDPs by (1) determiniz...
ASM
2010
ASM
13 years 4 months ago
2010
ASM
This paper presents Matelas, a B predicate calculus definition for social networking, modelling social-network content, privacy policies, social-networks friendship relations, and ...