Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...
Correlations in traffic patterns are an important facet of the workloads faced by real systems, and one that has far-reaching consequences on the performance and optimization of t...
Varun Gupta, Michelle Burroughs, Mor Harchol-Balte...
Abstract. Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is a specialized Information Retrieval (IR) branch that deals with information related to geographical locations. Traditional IR en...
— By analyzing people’s contact patterns over time, it is possible to build efficient delay tolerant networking (DTN) algorithms and derive important data for parameterizing an...
Mohammad S. Hashemian, Kevin G. Stanley, Nathaniel...