In real systems, such as operating systems, the scheduler is often unaware of the remaining work in each job or of the ability of the job to take advantage of more resources. In th...
It is considered good distributed computing practice to devise object implementations that tolerate contention, periods of asynchrony and a large number of failures, but perform f...
Suppose we are given a schedule of train movements over a rail network into which a new train is to be included. The origin and the destination are specified for the new train; it...
We analyze the properties of Small-World networks, where links are much more likely to connect “neighbor nodes” than distant nodes. In particular, our analysis provides new re...
A key problem of interest to biologists and medical researchers is the selection of a subset of queries or treatments that provide maximum utility for a population of targets. For ...
Delbert Dueck, Brendan J. Frey, Nebojsa Jojic, Vla...