Upper bound constraints are often set when complex scientific or business processes are modelled as grid workflow specifications. However, many existing processes such as climate ...
Consider a retailer that rents products to customers for a pre-specified rental duration. By considering the dynamics of uncertain rental demand and return processes, we first pre...
—It is essential to process real-time data service requests such as stock quotes and trade transactions in a timely manner using fresh data, which represent the current real worl...
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
Today’s world of increasingly dynamic computing environments naturally results in more and more data being available as fast streams. Applications such as stock market analysis,...