Passage time densities are useful performance measurements in stochastic systems. With them the modeller can extract probabilistic quality-of-service guarantees such as: the proba...
Jeremy T. Bradley, Stephen T. Gilmore, Nigel Thoma...
One of the most challenging problems in Grid environments concerns the matchmaking between resource requests and offers. As it happens in the physical economy, Grid economy must b...
Konstantinos Kotis, George A. Vouros, Alexandros G...
Exotic semirings such as the “(max, +) semiring” (R ∪ {−∞}, max, +), or the “tropical semiring” (N ∪ {+∞}, min, +), have been invented and reinvented many times s...
The application of resource-defined fitness sharing (RFS) to shape nesting problems reveals a remarkable ability to discover tilings [7, 8]. These tilings represent exact covers...
The increased usage of mobile devices coupled with an unprecedented demand for information has pushed the scalability problem of pull-based data service to the focus. A broadcast ...
Sujoe Bose, Leonidas Fegaras, David Levine, Vamsi ...