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DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
Resource and virtualization costs up in the cloud: Models and design choices
—Virtualization offers the potential for cost-effective service provisioning. For service providers who make significant investments in new virtualized data centers in support of...
Daniel Gmach, Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova
MOBICOM
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
This paper evaluates the ability of a wireless mesh architecture to provide high performance Internet access while demanding little deployment planning or operational management. ...
John C. Bicket, Daniel Aguayo, Sanjit Biswas, Robe...
CPAIOR
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Amsaa: A Multistep Anticipatory Algorithm for Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization
The one-step anticipatory algorithm (1s-AA) is an online algorithm making decisions under uncertainty by ignoring future non-anticipativity constraints. It makes near-optimal decis...
Luc Mercier, Pascal Van Hentenryck
WSC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
A simulation model to improve warehouse operations
Warehouse or distribution centre managers have to decide how to collect the products to fulfill customers requests but also where to locate the products (SKUs) and how much space ...
Jean Philippe Gagliardi, Jacques Renaud, Angel Rui...
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
The impact of instructor initiative on student learning: a tutoring study
In the quest to find instructional approaches that benefit student learning, engagement, and retention, evidence suggests providing students with hands-on practice is a worthwhile...
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Robert Phillips, Michael D...