—The computational Grid concept is gaining great popularity as the best way to deliver access to a wide range of distributed computing and data resources. But, as Grids move from...
This paper addresses the problem of minimizing the expected cost of locating a number of single product facilities and allocating uncertain customer demand to these facilities. Th...
It is widely believed that persistence in most endeavors is key to their success. By its very nature, persistence enhances both the quality of an outcome and its probability of su...
Commercial Scale-Out is a new research project at IBM Research. Its main goal is to investigate and develop technologies for the use of large scale parallelism in commercial appli...
A longitudinal case study evaluating the effects of adopting the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology was performed at Sabre Airline SolutionsTM. The Sabre team was a characterist...