This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
In this paper we study the online learning problem involving rested and restless multiarmed bandits with multiple plays. The system consists of a single player/user and a set of K...
—The article describes a course on system design (structural approach) which involves the following: issues of systems engineering; structural models; basic technological problem...
The problem addressed in this paper is to predict a user's numeric rating in a product review from the text of the review. Unigram and n-gram representations of text are comm...
We consider an inventory distribution system consisting of one warehouse and multiple retailers. The retailers face random demand and are supplied by the warehouse. The warehouse ...