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ICDCS
2003
IEEE
2003
IEEE
An Integrated Resource Sharing Policy for Multimedia Storage Servers Based on Network-Attached Disks
14 years 25 days ago
In this paper, we propose using the network-attached disk (NAD) architecture to design highly scalable and cost-effective multimedia-on-demand (MOD) servers. In order to ensure en...
JMS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
Long waiting times for emergency operations increase a patient’s risk of postoperative complications and morbidity. Reserving Operating Room (OR) capacity is a common technique t...
JAIR
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
In a facility with front room and back room operations, it is useful to switch workers between the rooms in order to cope with changing customer demand. Assuming stochastic custom...
SIGMETRICS
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
2002
ACM
Recently proposed scalable on-demand streaming protocols have previously been evaluated using a system cost measure termed the "required server bandwidth". For the scala...
WSC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
Primary care providers (PCPs) provide the majority of care patients receive during their lifetime. We consider the problem of determining the size and composition of physician pan...