We consider the impact of different communication architectures on the performability (performance + availability) of cluster-based servers. In particular, we use a combination of ...
A collaborative system must perform both processing and transmission tasks. We present a policy for scheduling these tasks on a single core that is inspired by studies of human pe...
Policy teaching considers a Markov Decision Process setting in which an interested party aims to influence an agent’s decisions by providing limited incentives. In this paper, ...
This paper studies evolutionary clustering, which is a recently hot topic with many important applications, noticeably in social network analysis. In this paper, based on the rece...
Tianbing Xu, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Philip S. Yu, ...
By source-level IP packet burst, we mean several IP packets sent back-to-back from the source of a flow. We first identify several causes of source-level bursts, including TCP...