Developers of distributed systems routinely construct discrete-event simulations to help understand and evaluate the behavior of inter-component protocols. Simulations are abstrac...
Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzaniga, Alexande...
Lean manufacturing aims at flexible and efficient manufacturing systems by reducing waste in all forms, such as, production of defective parts, excess inventory, unnecessary proce...
Durk-Jouke van der Zee, Arnout Pool, Jakob Wijngaa...
Recently, a novel balanced transmitted-reference (TR) system has been proposed for UWB communications. This TR system is capable of properly eliminating the inter-pulse interferenc...
Online feedback-based rating systems are gaining popularity. Dealing with collaborative unfair ratings in such systems has been recognized as an important but difficult problem. T...
Yafei Yang, Yan Lindsay Sun, Steven Kay, Qing Yang
The performance of file systems and related software depends on characteristics of the underlying file-system image (i.e., file-system metadata and file contents). Unfortunately, ...
Nitin Agrawal, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. ...