The Unit Commitment Problem (UCP) is the task of finding an optimal turn on and turn off schedule for a group of power generation units over a given time horizon to minimize ope...
For very large databases such as those used by banks and airlines, cost considerations may forbid shutting down the service for a long period of time and reorganizing off-line. Si...
FUSE is a lightweight failure notification service for building distributed systems. Distributed systems built with FUSE are guaranteed that failure notifications never fail. When...
John Dunagan, Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Michael B. Jo...
ing Abstraction to Improve Fault Tolerance MIGUEL CASTRO Microsoft Research and RODRIGO RODRIGUES and BARBARA LISKOV MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Software errors are a major...
The problem of designing workforce shifts and break patterns is a relevant employee scheduling problem that arises in many contexts, especially in service industries. The issue is ...