On January 28th , 2007, Jim Gray sailed his 40 foot sailboat, Tenacious, on a day cruise to the Farallon Islands off San Francisco and was reported overdue when he didn't ret...
One of the most important applications of the Asymmetric Hamiltonian Path Problem is in scheduling. In this paper we describe a variant of this problem, and develop both a mathemat...
Applications such as traffic management and resource scheduling for location-based services commonly need to identify regions with high concentrations of moving objects. Such quer...
—Disk drives are a common performance bottleneck in modern storage systems. To alleviate this, disk manufacturers employ a variety of I/O request scheduling strategies which aim ...
Abigail S. Lebrecht, Nicholas J. Dingle, William J...
In epidemic or gossip-based multicast protocols, each node simply relays each message to some random neighbors, such that all destinations receive it at least once with high proba...