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
Abstract. We describe mcmt, a fully declarative and deductive symbolic model checker for safety properties of infinite state systems whose state variables are arrays. Theories spec...
BitTorrent, the immensely popular file swarming system, suffers a fundamental problem: content unavailability. Although swarming scales well to tolerate flash crowds for popular c...
Abstract. Today’s large-scale computing systems are deployed in open, changing and unpredictable environments. To operate reliably, such systems should be able to adapt to new ci...
Abstract. Modern document collections often contain groups of documents with overlapping or shared content. However, most information retrieval systems process each document separa...
Andrei Z. Broder, Nadav Eiron, Marcus Fontoura, Mi...