Recent industry trends towards reducing the costs of ownership in large data centers emphasize the need for database system techniques for both automatic performance tuning and ef...
Jin Chen, Gokul Soundararajan, Madalin Mihailescu,...
In this paper we consider the problem of maximising utility in linked market-driven distributed and Grid systems. In such systems, users submit jobs through brokers who can virtua...
Abstract—It has been recently shown that base station cooperation may yield great capacity improvement in downlink multiple antenna cellular networks. However, the proposed solut...
A global cardinality constraint (gcc) is specified in terms of a set of variables X = {x1, ..., xp} which take their values in a subset of V = {v1, ..., vd}. It constrains the numb...
The Location of nodes in sensor network is an important problem with application in resource allocation, location sensitive browsing, and emergency communications. A key problem i...