In this paper, we consider an M/M/k queueing system with setup costs. Servers are turned off when there is no work to do, but turning on an off server incurs a setup cost. The s...
We introduce a mobile device application that displays key information about caffeine: the pharmacokinetics (time course of drug levels) and pharmacodynamics (the effects of caffei...
This paper presents a new workload model, called the state-dependent deadline model, for applications whose high-level timing requirements may change with time. The problem is how...
This paper provides four contributions to the study of optimization techniques for component-based distributed realtime and embedded (DRE) systems. First, we describe key challeng...
Data-centric business applications comprise an important class of distributed systems that includes on-line stores, document management systems, and patient portals. However, their...