Mobile agent technology has emerged as a promising programming paradigm for developing highly dynamic and large-scale service-oriented computing middlewares due to its desirable fe...
Quality of service (QoS) assurance is a major concern in media-on-demand (MoD) systems. Admission control is one of the most important issues that need to be addressed for QoS ass...
Most software is fragile: even the slightest error, such as changing a single bit, can make it crash. As software complexity has increased, development techniques have kept pace t...
In this paper, we present a stochastic version of the Location Model with Risk Pooling (LMRP) that optimizes location, inventory, and allocation decisions under random parameters ...
Lawrence V. Snyder, Mark S. Daskin, Chung-Piaw Teo
Abstract: Most modern computer applications should run on heterogeneous platforms and, moreover, objects and respective code should be easily interchangeable between distinct platf...