This paper considers importance sampling as a tool for rare-event simulation. The focus is on estimating the probability of overflow in the downstream queue of a Jacksonian two-n...
Denis I. Miretskiy, Werner R. W. Scheinhardt, Mich...
Deadlock-free resource allocation has been an active area of research in flexible manufacturing. Most researchers have assumed that allocated resources do not fail, and thus, littl...
We consider the problem of admission control in resource sharing systems, such as web servers and transaction processing systems, when the job size distribution has high variabili...
Over the last few years, target tracking in wireless sensor networks has become a topic of particular interest. This paper presents a tracking system intended for deployment in di...
Evangelos B. Mazomenos, Jeffrey S. Reeve, Neil M. ...
Abstract. This paper investigates the problem of autonomously allocating a large number of independent, equal sized tasks on a distributed heterogeneous grid-like platform, using o...