This paper studies the problem of real time yard crane dispatching in container terminals. Many technologies, including transponders, RFID and GPS have been used in the container ...
Xi Guo, Shell-Ying Huang, Wen-Jing Hsu, Malcolm Yo...
Grid environments enable users to share non-dedicated resources that lack performance guarantees. This paper describes the design of application-centric middleware components to a...
For operating system intensive applications, the ability of designers to understand system call performance behavior is essential to achieving high performance. Conventional perfo...
: The increase in the volume of information be handled by organisations has increased pressure on corporate boards to ensure that legislative, accountability, business and cultural...
We examine the problem of evaluating selection queries over imprecisely represented objects. Such objects are used either because they are much smaller in size than the precise on...