We construct, analyze and solve models of systems where a number of servers offer services to an incoming stream of demands. Each server goes through alternating periods of being ...
Various problems in machine learning, databases, and statistics involve pairwise distances among a set of objects. It is often desirable for these distances to satisfy the propert...
In this paper we study a general formulation of the train platforming problem, which contains as special cases all the versions previously considered in the literature as well as a...
While much recent research has focussed on extending databases beyond the traditional relational model, relatively little has been done to develop database tools for querying data...
An important implementation decision in polymorphically typed functional programming languages is whether to represent data in boxed or unboxed form and when to transform them fro...