We consider a system in which a single finished good is assembled from two components. Demand for the finished product is stochastic and stationary, and procurement and assembly l...
A continuing problem in business today is the design of human-computer systems that respect how work actually gets done. The overarching context of work consists of activities, wh...
William J. Clancey, Patricia Sachs, Maarten Sierhu...
An efficient and distributed scheme for file mapping or file lookup scheme is critical in decentralizing metadata management within a group of metadata servers. This paper present...
An effective means for building Internet-scale distributed applications, and in particular those involving group-based information sharing, is to deploy peer-to-peer overlay netwo...
Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Gregory Chockler, Ymir Vigf...
Abstract. Images play a vital role in scientific studies. An image repository would become a costly and meaningless data graveyard without descriptive metadata. We adapted EPrints,...