The facility design problem is a common one in manufacturing and service industries and has been studied extensively in the literature. However, restrictions on the scope of the de...
Bryan A. Norman, Alice E. Smith, Rifat Aykut Arapo...
: We study the problem of fixturing a chain of hinged objects in a given placement with frictionless point contacts. We define the notions of immobility and robust immobility, wh...
Jae-Sook Cheong, A. Frank van der Stappen, Kenneth...
We consider storage in an extremely large-scale distributed computer system designed for stream processing applications. In such systems, incoming data and intermediate results ma...
Kirsten Hildrum, Fred Douglis, Joel L. Wolf, Phili...
In a data-indexed DHT overlay network, published data annotations form distributed databases. Queries are distributed to these databases in a nonuniform way. Constructing content d...
Bassam A. Alqaralleh, Chen Wang, Bing Bing Zhou, A...
Metadata management is critical for Grid systems. More specifically, semantically meaningful resource descriptions constitute a highly beneficial extension to Grid environments t...
George Samaras, Kyriakos Karenos, Eleni Christodou...