IT today is driven by the trend of increasing scale and complexity. Utility and Grid computing models, PlanetLab, and traditional data centers, are reaching the scale of thousands...
Due to the imperative need to reduce the management costs of large data centers, operators multiplex several concurrent database applications on a server farm connected to shared ...
Gokul Soundararajan, Jin Chen, Mohamed A. Sharaf, ...
The number of networked multimedia platforms that are introduced into the market has increased dramatically in recent years. Current approaches to multimedia distribution do not s...
Stijn Decneut, Filip Hendrickx, Steven Van Assche,...
This paper describes SRIPPs, structured reactive image processing plans, that are tailored for the needs of autonomous service robots. SRIPPs are implemented on top of a modular, d...
Michael Beetz, Tom Arbuckle, Armin B. Cremers, M. ...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. Main reasons for batching are avoidance of setups and/or facilitation of material handling. Bat...