One proposed approach to managing a large complex Smart Grid is through Broker Agents who buy electrical power from distributed producers, and also sell power to consumers, via a ...
This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...
The analysis of externalities in technology-based networks continues to be of significant managerial importance in e-commerce and traditional IS operations. Competitive strategy, ...
We address the problems of I/O scheduling and buffer management for general reference strings in a parallel I/O system. Using the standard parallel disk model withD disks and a sh...
Transit services are currently facing several challenges in the United States and around the
world. For many reasons, among which the fluctuations in gas prices and the state of t...