Group elevator scheduling has long been recognized as an important problem for building transportation efficiency, since unsatisfactory elevator service is one of the major complai...
Continued advances in mobile networks and positioning technologies have created a strong market push for location-based applications. Examples include location-aware emergency resp...
In distributed IT systems, replication of information is commonly used to strengthen the fault tolerance on a technical level or the autonomy of an organization on a business level...
Most of today's software applications are built on top of libraries or frameworks. Just as applications evolve, libraries and frameworks also evolve. Upgrading is straightfor...
Reishi Yokomori, Harvey P. Siy, Masami Noro, Katsu...
—For multiclass flow line models, we identify a class of service times that allow a decomposition of the system into subsets of servers called channels. In each channel, the cus...