This paper assesses the predictability of network traffic by considering two metrics: (1) how far into the future a traffic rate process can be predicted with bounded error; (2) w...
A task of a stock index prediction is presented in this paper. Several issues are considered. The data is gathered at the concerned stock market (NIKKEI) and two other markets (NAS...
—Scientific simulation and modeling often aid in making critical decisions in such diverse fields as city planning, severe weather prediction and influenza modeling. In some o...
Effective task scheduling and deployment is hard to achieve in a Grid environment, where computing resources are heterogamous and shared between local and Grid users without a cen...
Abstract- On marginal winter nights, highway authorities face a difficult decision as to whether or not to salt the road network. The consequences of making a wrong decision are s...