The use of multimedia service applications is growing rapidly on the Internet. These applications are generating a huge volume of network traffic, which has a great impact on netw...
The rapidly increasing number of XML-related applications indicates a growing need for efficient, dynamic, and native XML support in database management systems (XDBMS). So far, bo...
Miss rate curves (MRCs) are useful in a number of contexts. In our research, online L2 cache MRCs enable us to dynamically identify optimal cache sizes when cache-partitioning a s...
David K. Tam, Reza Azimi, Livio Soares, Michael St...
— With the advent of service sensitive applications such as remote controlled experiments, time constrained massive data transfers, and video-conferencing, it has become apparent...
Chin Guok, David W. Robertson, Mary R. Thompson, J...
In this work, we address investment decisions in production systems by using real options. As is standard in literature, the stochastic variable is assumed to be normally distribu...