Conventional resource management systems use a system model to describe resources and a centralized scheduler to control their allocation. We argue that this paradigm does not ada...
Some recent trends in business and manufacturing hold the promise of greater profits, yet, due to profit-robbing inventory increases, this promise has not been fully realized. [9]...
Indu Bingham, Barbara Hoefle, Kim Phan, Jim Sizemo...
Pervasive surveillance implies the continuous tracking of multiple targets as they move about the monitored region. The tasks to be performed by a surveillance system are expresse...
Amit Goradia, Zhiwei Cen, Clayton Haffner, Ning Xi...
This article deals with the resolution of over-constrained problems using constraint programming, which often imposes to add to the constraint network new side constraints. These ...
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...