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PE
2006
Springer
111views Optimization» more  PE 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
How many servers are best in a dual-priority M/PH/k system?
We ask the question, "for minimizing mean response time (sojourn time), which is preferable: one fast server of speed 1, or k slow servers each of speed 1/k?" Our settin...
Adam Wierman, Takayuki Osogami, Mor Harchol-Balter...
CORR
2004
Springer
103views Education» more  CORR 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots
An optimization problem that naturally arises in the study of swarm robotics is the Freeze-Tag Problem (FTP) of how to awaken a set of "asleep" robots, by having an awak...
Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender, Sándor ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
How to carry over historic books into social networks
This paper describes how to make use of e-books that look like printed books in a knowledge network. After an overview of digitalization efforts and current digital library initia...
Heimo Müller, Hermann A. Maurer
HRI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
How to approach humans?: strategies for social robots to initiate interaction
This paper proposes a model of approach behavior with which a robot can initiate conversation with people who are walking. We developed the model by learning from the failures in ...
Satoru Satake, Takayuki Kanda, Dylan F. Glas, Mich...
ECWEB
2009
Springer
130views ECommerce» more  ECWEB 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
Perspectives for Web Service Intermediaries: How Influence on Quality Makes the Difference
Abstract. In the service-oriented computing paradigm and the Web service architecture, the broker role is a key facilitator to leverage technical capabilities of loose coupling to ...
Ulrich Scholten, Robin Fischer, Christian Zirpins