We consider the practical problem of task assignment in a server farm, where each arriving job is immediately dispatched to a server in the farm. We look at the benefit of cycle ...
Mor Harchol-Balter, Cuihong Li, Takayuki Osogami, ...
Collaborations (between objects) are increasingly being recognized as fundamental building blocks to structure object-oriented design, and they have made their way into UML. But v...
This paper addresses the problem of transforming natural language descriptions of contracts into a form that is suitable for automating various contract management functions. We i...
For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the back-end, with system...
Giacomo Piccinelli, Wolfgang Emmerich, Christian Z...
The increasingly common practice of replicating datasets and using resources as distributed data stores in Grid environments has led to the problem of determining which replica ca...