We define the robustness of a sequential plan as the probability that it will execute successfully despite uncertainty in the execution environment. We consider a rich notion of u...
With the advent of high-performance COTS clusters, there is a need for a simple, scalable and faulttolerant parallel programming and execution paradigm. In this paper, we show that...
Reza Farivar, Abhishek Verma, Ellick Chan, Roy H. ...
Abstract-- This paper addresses the problem of traffic grooming in WDM rings in which all traffic emanates from a single node and all other nodes are destination nodes. This "...
Kevin Corcoran, Seth Flaxman, Mark Neyer, Peter Sc...
Since mining frequent patterns from transactional databases involves an exponential mining space and generates a huge number of patterns, efficient discovery of user-interest-based...
Business workflows implemented as BPEL processes play an important role for many business applications. BPEL is used to orchestrate a series of Web service calls. Which provider ...