Inbound call center operations are challenging to manage; there is considerable uncertainty in estimates of arrival rates, and the operation is often subject to strict service lev...
Thomas R. Robbins, Terry P. Harrison, Deborah J. M...
The typical approach to finding minimum levels of resources that still allow support and operational performance goals to be met for military aircraft is based on a manual trial-a...
A frequently proposed solution to node misbehavior in mobile ad hoc networks is to use reputation systems. But in ephemeral networks - a new breed of mobile networks where contact...
Abstract-- This paper studies distributed coordination algorithms for multiple fractional-order systems over a directed communication graph. A general fractional-order consensus mo...
A promising application domain for Semantic Web technology is the annotation of products and services offerings on the Web so that consumers and enterprises can search for suitable...