This paper describes a Global Computing (GC) environment, called XtremWeb-CH (XWCH). XWCH is an improved version of a GC tool called XtremWeb (XW). XWCH tries to enrich XW in orde...
: Development of distributed systems is complicated by the absence of reliable global timing, concurrency, and nondeterminism. To deal with these obstacles log files are produced b...
Scheduling problems are usually treated within single plant environments or within companies with several production locations. Due to the globalization of markets companies can no...
Different generalizations to the case of coverings of the standard approach to entropy applied to partitions of a finite universe X are explored. In the first approach any cover...
In this paper we consider a single-server cyclic polling system. Between visits to successive queues, the server is delayed by a random switch-over time. The order in which custom...
Marko A. A. Boon, Ivo J. B. F. Adan, Onno J. Boxma