Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
The underlying structure of why and how consumers value reliability of electric service is explored, together with the technological options and cost characteristics for the provi...
Timothy Mount, William Schulze, Richard E. Schuler
— There is a growing interest among service providers to offer new services with Quality of Service (QoS) guaranties that are also resilient to failures. Supporting QoS connectio...
—Parallelism has often been used to improve the reliability and efficiency of a variety of different engineering systems. In this paper, we quantify the efficiency of paralleli...
Jian Tan, Wei Wei, Bo Jiang, Ness Shroff, Donald F...
Crowding is a technique used in genetic algorithms to preserve diversity in the population and to prevent premature convergence to local optima. It consists of pairing each offsp...