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IJCAI
2003
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2003
Patient scheduling in hospitals is a highly complex task. Hospitals have a distributed organisational structure; being divided into several autonomous wards and ancillary units. M...
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IKE
2003
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2003
Inverted files are widely used to index documents in large-scale information retrieval systems. An inverted file consists of posting lists, which can be stored in either a documen...
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IM
2003
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2003
Abstract: Firewalls are core elements in network security. However, managing firewall rules, especially for enterprize networks, has become complex and error-prone. Firewall filt...
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USENIX
2004
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2004
Large web or e-commerce sites are frequently hosted on clusters. Successful open-source tools exist for clustering the front tiers of such sites (web servers and application serve...
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WICSA
2001
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2001
Increasingly, systems are composed from independently developed parts, and mechanisms that allow those parts to interact (connectors). In many situations, specialized forms of int...