We compare two inventory systems, one in which excess demand is lost and the other in which excess demand is backordered. Both systems are reviewed periodically. They experience t...
Ganesh Janakiraman, Sridhar Seshadri, J. George Sh...
Background: Complex biological database systems have become key computational tools used daily by scientists and researchers. Many of these systems must be capable of executing on...
Marko Srdanovic, Ulf Schenk, Michael Schwieger, Fa...
Background: Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) are short and error-prone DNA sequences generated from the 5' and 3' ends of randomly selected cDNA clones. They provide an im...
Nunzio D'Agostino, Mario Aversano, Maria Luisa Chi...
Mutual network synchronization is a distributed method in which geographically separated clocks align their times to one another without the need of reference or master clocks. Mut...
This paper presents a set of architectures for the composition of ubiquitous computing applications. It describes research that is being carried out in "extrovert-Gadgets&quo...