This paper develops time-based rejuvenation policies to improve the performability measures of a cluster system. Three rejuvenation policies, namely standard rejuvenation, delayed...
Abstract—In this paper, we seek to understand the intrinsic reasons for the well-known phenomenon of heavy-tailed degree in the Internet AS graph and argue that in contrast to tr...
—Networks of biological agents (for example, ants, bees, fish, birds) and complex man-made cyberphysical infrastructures (for example, the power grid, transportation networks) e...
Multi-agent systems are an increasingly important software paradigm and in many of its applications agents cooperate to achieve a particular goal. This requires the design of effi...
Taolue Chen, Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, David Parker, A...
The system presented in this paper finds images and line-drawings in scanned pages; it is a crucial processing step in the creation of a large-scale system to detect and index ima...