Bioinformatics aims at applying computer science methods to the wealth of data collected in a variety of experiments in life sciences (e.g. cell and molecular biology, biochemistry...
Data access latency is an important metric of system performance in data grid. By means of efficient replication strategy, the amount of data transferred in wide area network will ...
One of the key requirement for Grid infrastructures is the ability to share resources with nontrivial qualities of service. However, resource management in a decentralized infrast...
—The delivery of video content is expected to gain huge momentum, fueled by the popularity of user-generated clips, growth of VoD libraries, and wide-spread deployment of IPTV se...
— We consider decision making in a Markovian setup where the reward parameters are not known in advance. Our performance criterion is the gap between the performance of the best ...