In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...
This paper presents the design of a new middleware which provides support for trust and accountability in distributed data sharing communities. One application is in the context of...
Paul Ruth, Dongyan Xu, Bharat K. Bhargava, Fred Re...
—FLOSS distributions like RedHat and Ubuntu require a lot more complex infrastructures than most other FLOSS projects. In the case of community-driven distributions like Debian, ...
The problem of integrating autonomous data marts arises when, e.g., a large organization (or a federation thereof) needs to combine independently developed data warehouses. It turn...
Numeric data has traditionally received little attention in the field of Multi-Relational Data Mining (MRDM). It is often assumed that numeric data can simply be turned into symbol...