The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers w...
—The departure process of a BMAP/MAP/1 queue can be approximated in different ways: as a Markovian arrival process (MAP) or as a matrix-exponential process (MEP). Both approximat...
Qi Zhang, Armin Heindl, Evgenia Smirni, Andreas St...
With the invention of microarray technology, researchers are able to measure the expression levels of ten thousands of genes in parallel at various time points of a biological proc...
Christian Spieth, Felix Streichert, Nora Speer, An...
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...