A flash crowd is a surge in traffic to a particular Web site that causes the site to be virtually unreachable. We present a theoretical model of flash crowd events and evaluate...
Ismail Ari, Bo Hong, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Bra...
Long-term service agreements (LTSA) for the maintenance of capital-intensive equipment such as gas turbines and aircraft engines are gaining wide acceptance. A typical LTSA contra...
One of the main tasks of workflow management systems is the coordination of activities in business processes. This paper introduces a solution framework to support adaptive workfl...
One promising application of sensor networks is object tracking. Because the movements of the tracked objects usually show repeating patterns, we propose a heterogeneous tracking ...
This paper examines a problem related to the optimal risk management of banks in a stochastic dynamic setting. In particular, we minimize7 market and capital adequacy risk that in...