HARC—the Highly-Available Resource Co-allocator—is an open-source system for reserving multiple resources in a coordinated fashion. HARC can handle different types of resource...
— Warehouse operation has become a critical activity in supply chain to outperform competitors on customer service, lead times and costs. However, managers often meet difficulti...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
Virtual machine monitors, especially when used for server consolidation, need to enforce a predefined sharing of resources among the running virtual machines. We propose a new me...
Agents often have to construct plans that obey resource limits for continuous resources whose consumption can only be characterized by probability distributions. While Markov Deci...