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WSC
2008
15 years 9 days ago
Optimizing staffing schedule in light of patient satisfaction for the whole outpatient hospital ward
The waiting time for patients in outpatient departments of hospitals is a problem throughout the world. In this context, a discrete-event-simulation model was developed to examine...
Soemon Takakuwa, Athula Wijewickrama
ISQED
2009
IEEE
137views Hardware» more  ISQED 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Active decap design considerations for optimal supply noise reduction
Active decoupling capacitors (decaps) are more effective than passive decaps at reducing local IR-drop problems in the power distribution network. In the basic active decap, two p...
Xiongfei Meng, Resve A. Saleh
GLVLSI
2010
IEEE
172views VLSI» more  GLVLSI 2010»
15 years 3 months ago
Online convex optimization-based algorithm for thermal management of MPSoCs
Meeting the temperature constraints and reducing the hot-spots are critical for achieving reliable and efficient operation of complex multi-core systems. The goal of thermal mana...
Francesco Zanini, David Atienza, Giovanni De Miche...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Greening backbone networks: reducing energy consumption by shutting off cables in bundled links
In backbone networks, the line cards that drive the links between neighboring routers consume a large amount of energy. Since these networks are typically overprovisioned, selecti...
Will Fisher, Martin Suchara, Jennifer Rexford
VLDB
1991
ACM
122views Database» more  VLDB 1991»
15 years 1 months ago
An Iterative Method for Distributed Database Design
The development of a distributed database systemrequires effective solutions to many complex and interrelated design problems. The cost dependenciesbetween query optimization and ...
Rex Blankinship, Alan R. Hevner, S. Bing Yao