Triggered by several embarrassing (and costly) IT project collapses in New Zealand’s public sector, a government report found that effective project control required good govern...
We examine the stability of multi-class queueing systems with the special feature that the service rates of the various classes depend on the number of users present of each of th...
In P2P systems, users often have many choices of peers from whom to download their data. Each user cares primarily about its own response time, which depends on how many other use...
In this paper, we describe a compilation system that automates much of the process of performance tuning that is currently done manually by application programmers interested in h...
Nastaran Baradaran, Jacqueline Chame, Chun Chen, P...
Efficient scheduling of jobs on parallel processors is essential for good performance. However, design of such schedulers is challenging because of the complex interaction between...