We introduce Grid Resources for Industrial Applications (GRIA), a project that aims to enable commercial use of the Grid. GRIA enables service providers to rent out spare CPU cycl...
This paper uses trace-driven simulations to evaluate two novel Web server scheduling policies called KSRPT and T-SRPT. K-SRPT is a multi-threaded version of SRPT (Shortest Remaini...
The paper introduces a new model for shipment date quoting with potential applications in E-commerce. First, a customer sends to the vendor a request for an item advertised at a c...
Queueing network formalisms are very good at describing the spatial movement of customers, but typically poor at describing how customers change as they move through the network. ...
CorGen is a web server that measures long-range correlations in the base composition of DNA and generates random sequences with the same correlation parameters. Long-range correla...