Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
Abstract— This paper proposes a combination of methodologies based on a recent development –called Extreme Learning Machine (ELM)– decreasing drastically the training time of...
Antti Sorjamaa, Yoan Miche, Robert Weiss, Amaury L...
We present the first user study of out-of-turn interaction in menu-based, interactive voice-response systems. Out-ofturn interaction is a technique which empowers the user (unable...
Saverio Perugini, Taylor J. Anderson, William F. M...
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from an single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her p...
—Dynamic reconfiguration – the ability to hot swap a component, or to introduce a new component into the system – is essential to supporting evolutionary change in long-live ...