Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even "virtual-enterprise"-style business processes across multiple organi...
OLAP applications use precomputation of aggregate data to improve query response time. While this problem has been well-studied in the recent database literature, to our knowledge ...
Amit Shukla, Prasad Deshpande, Jeffrey F. Naughton
The behaviour of many systems is naturally modelled by a set of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) which are parametric. Since decisions are often based on relations over these...
This paper discusses the issues that arise in the design and implementation of an industrialstrength evolutionary-based system for the optimization of the monthly work schedules f...
We study contention-resolution protocols for multiple-access channels. We show that every backoff protocol is transient if the arrival rate, , is at least 0.42 and that the capaci...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Mark Jerrum, Sampath Kannan, ...