In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...
Nowadays, workflow research has shifted from fundamentals of workflow modelling and enactment towards improvement of the workflow modelling lifecycle and integration of workflow en...
We present a new distributed algorithm that detects and resolves communication deadlocks on-line, i.e., simultaneously detects and resolves deadlock as communication requests are ...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) storage is a promising technology to provide users with cheap and online persistence. However, due the instability of these infrastructures, P2P storage systems...
This paper proves a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of iterative algorithms that achieve approximate Byzantine consensus in arbitrary directed graphs, where e...