Engineering design increasingly uses computer simulation models coupled with optimization algorithms to find the best design that meets the customer constraints within a time con...
This paper focuses on two problems related to QoS-aware I/O server placement in hierarchical Grid environments. Given a hierarchical network with requests from clients, the network...
— Due to the abundant application background, the optimization of maintenance problem has been extensively studied in the past decades. Besides the well-known difficulty of larg...
— For many wireless communication links, such as those employing turbo codes or sequentially-decoded convolutional codes, the power consumption of the decoder at the receiver dep...
Sudarshan Vasudevan, Chun Zhang, Dennis Goeckel, D...
A multimedia system utilizes a set of correlated media streams each of which partially help in achieving the system goal. However, since not all of the streams always contribute t...