An exact parameterization for the boundary of the Minkowski product of N circular disks in the complex plane is derived. When N > 2, this boundary curve may be regarded as a gen...
One of the more important steps in starting a process improvement initiative is to determine the appropriate tasking and the scope of the process improvement program. There is gre...
Different presentations of candidate expansion terms have not been fully explored in interactive query expansion (IQE). Most existing systems that offer an IQE facility use a list...
Hideo Joho, Claire Coverson, Mark Sanderson, Miche...
We present a new class of randomized approximation algorithms for unrelated parallel machine scheduling problems with the average weighted completion time objective. The key idea i...
Probability distributions of response times are important in the design and analysis of transaction processing systems and computercommunication systems. We present a general tech...