Internet servers need to be highly-available, inexpensive, and scalable. These goals are often con icting and most designs meet, with limited success, only few of them. In this pa...
Transportation and logistics are fertile areas for modeling. Simulation has traditionally been used in warehousing and inside the distribution center or processing hub in the truc...
John S. Carson II, Mani S. Manivannan, Mark K. Bra...
Abstract. In distributed computer networks where resources are under decentralized control, selfish users will generally not work towards one common goal, such as maximizing the o...
Most of the work on grid technology in the video area has been generally restricted to aspects of resource scheduling and replica management. The traffic of such a service has a lo...
Peng Gao, Tao Liu, Yanming Chen, Xingyao Wu, Yehia...
For capacity planning issues in health care, such as the allocation of hospital beds, the admissions rate of patients is commonly assumed to be constant over time. In addition to ...