— We consider the problem of efficiently broadcasting incremental updates to multiple terminals that contain outdated (and possibly different) initial copies of the data. This s...
This paper is about business process management (BPM) and business activity monitoring (BAM) using event processing. We will show why the management of business processes is impor...
Location-based applications and services are getting increasingly important for mobile users. They take into account a mobile user's current location and provide a location-d...
This paper analyzes a single server queueing system in which service is alternated between two queues and the server requires a (finite) switchover time to switch from one queue ...
There has recently been a significant increase in the number of community-based question and answer services on the Web where people answer other peoples’ questions. These serv...