We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
In this paper, we discuss how to utilize the co-occurrence of answers in building an automatic question answering system that answers a series of questions on a specific topic in ...
This paper examines a discrete-time queuing system with applications to telecommunications traffic. The arrival process is a particular Markov modulated process which belongs to t...
The problem of scheduling the production of new and recoverable defective items of the same product manufactured on the same facility is studied. Items are processed in batches. E...
M. S. Barketau, T. C. Edwin Cheng, Mikhail Y. Kova...
Since many applications require the verification of large sets of signatures, it is sometimes advantageous to perform a simultaneous verification instead of checking each signatu...