: Workflow systems often present the user with rich interfaces that express all the capabilities and complexities of the application programs and the computing environments that th...
Philip Maechling, Hans Chalupsky, Maureen Doughert...
The deployment of software components frequently fails because dependencies on other components are not declared explicitly or are declared imprecisely. This results in an incompl...
Emerging IPTV technology uses source-specific IP multicast to deliver TV programs to the end-users. To provide timely and reliable services over the error-prone DSL access networ...
We consider a networked control system, where each subsystem evolves as a Markov decision process (MDP). Each subsystem is coupled to its neighbors via communication links over wh...
— The goal of this paper is to develop modeling techniques for complex systems for the purposes of control, estimation, and inference: (i) A new class of Hidden Markov Models is ...