We investigate an optimal scheduling problem in a discrete-time system of L parallel queues that are served by K identical servers. This model has been widely used in studies of em...
Hussein Al-Zubaidy, Ioannis Lambadaris, Ioannis Vi...
Complete system simulation to understand the influence of architecture and operating systems on application execution has been identified to be crucial for systems design. While t...
Tao Li, Lizy Kurian John, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan,...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...
A database view is a dynamic virtual table composed of the result set of a query, often executed over different underlying databases. The view maintenance problem concerns how a v...
Writing reliable software is difficult. It becomes even more difficult when writing scientific software involving floating-point numbers. Computers provide numbers with limite...