Utility functions can be used to represent the value users attach to job completion as a function of turnaround time. Most previous scheduling research used simple synthetic repre...
This paper provides description and analysis of a new clock synchronization algorithm for synchronous and partially synchronous systems with unknown upper and lower bounds on delay...
Motivated by experience gained during the validation of a recent Approximate Mean Value Analysis (AMVA) model of modern shared memory architectures, this paper re-examines the &qu...
The M/G/K queueing system is one of the oldest model for multi-server systems, and has been the topic of performance papers for almost half a century. However, even now, only coar...
Varun Gupta, Mor Harchol-Balter, J. G. Dai, Bert Z...
This paper presents research on the application of the means-end chain (MEC) framework for investigating customers cognitive structure regarding community applications. It is argu...