In this paper we consider a multi-server queue with a near general arrival process (represented as an arbitrary state-dependent Coxian distribution), a near general state-dependent...
The standard database mechanisms for concurrency control, which include transactions and locking protocols, do not provide the support needed for updating complex geographic data i...
Petko Bakalov, Erik G. Hoel, Sudhakar Menon, Vassi...
— The assignment problem constitutes one of the fundamental problems in the context of linear programming. Besides its theoretical significance, its frequent appearance in the a...
Michael M. Zavlanos, Leonid Spesivtsev, George J. ...
Abstract— Service availability is one of the most closely scrutinized metrics in offering network services. It is important to costeffectively provision a managed and differentia...
Dahai Xu, Ying Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderba...
The increased complexity of performance-sensitive software systems leads to increased use of automated adaptation policies in lieu of manual performance tuning. Composition of ada...
Jin Heo, Dan Henriksson, Xue Liu, Tarek F. Abdelza...