A facility with front room and back room operations has the option of hiring specialized or, more expensive, cross-trained workers. Assuming stochastic customer arrival and servic...
Daria Terekhov, J. Christopher Beck, Kenneth N. Br...
— A powerful path computation element is a must for the next-generation IP-over-Optical networks to support ondemand service provisioning crossing layers. The main purpose of pat...
Xi Yang, Tom Lehman, Kenichi Ogaki, Tomohiro Otani
— The three traditional objectives of computer security are confidentiality, integrity and availability [8]. Availability can be defined as the prevention of denial of service. C...
Abstract. We explore techniques for efficient Quality of Service Routing in the presence of multiple constraints. We first present a polynomial time approximation algorithm for th...
Abstract. Security issues have to be carefully considered for information systems that support the business processes of an organization, in particular, when these systems build on...