In this paper, we discuss some of the lessons that we have learned working with the Hadoop and Sector/Sphere systems. Both of these systems are cloud-based systems designed to sup...
iFlow is a replication-based system that can achieve both fast and reliable processing of high volume data streams on the Internet scale. iFlow uses a low degree of replication in...
Grid enabled physics analysis requires a Workload Management System (WMS) that takes care of finding suitable computing resources to execute data intensive jobs. A typical exampl...
Rapid advances in research and technology now allow data analysis and modeling of extremely complex systems. Methods from artificial intelligence (AI) such as Neural Networks have...
Abstract. Scheduling staff shift work in a hospital ward is a well-known problem in the operation research field but, as such, it is very often studied from the algorithmic point o...
Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costa...