In the past decade cluster computing platforms have been widely applied to support a variety of scientific and commercial applications, many of which are parallel in nature. Howev...
We describe the problem of scheduling astronomy observations for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne telescope. The problem requires maximizing the nu...
—Peer-to-Peer file sharing applications in the Internet, such as BitTorrent, Gnutella, etc., have been immensely popular. Prior research mainly focuses on peer and content discov...
Jonathan S. K. Chan, Victor O. K. Li, King-Shan Lu...
A constraint satisfiability problem consists of a set of variables, their associated domains (i.e., the set of values the variable can take) and a set of constraints on these vari...
Abstract— In this paper, we analyze the throughput of interconnection networks, viewed as multi-stage queueing networks with infinite input queues, but finite internal cross-st...