Byzantine fault tolerant systems behave correctly when no more than f out of 3f + 1 replicas fail. When there are more than f failures, traditional BFT protocols make no guarantee...
Energy consumption in hosting Internet services is becoming a pressing issue as these services scale up. Dynamic server provisioning techniques are effective in turning off unnece...
Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas...
This paper presents problems encountered within the simulation modeling community of General Motors when they are faced with the requirement to verify all new plant designs for th...
Jeffrey Scott Miller, Randy Combs, Earnest Foster,...
Department of Defense and Homeland Security analysts are increasingly using multi-agent simulation (MAS) to examine national security issues. This paper summarizes three MAS natio...
Thomas W. Lucas, Susan M. Sanchez, Felix Martinez,...
Computer simulation is effective in improving the efficiency of manufacturing system design, operation, and maintenance. Most simulation models are usually tailored to address a n...