– When subjected to transient disturbances in the power grid, the variable frequency converter (VFC) is the most sensitive part in the variable-speed wind turbine generator syste...
Wei Qiao, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy, Ronald G. Har...
The server side of business software systems is commonly implemented today by an ensemble of Java classes distributed over several hosts. In this scenario, it is often necessary, ...
Marco Milazzo, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Emiliano Tramo...
— In this paper, we address a sensor network lifetime problem that maintains a certain throughput in an environment where physical node destruction is possible. While lifetime is...
Xun Wang, Wenjun Gu, Kurt Schosek, Sriram Chellapp...
Technical support procedures are typically very complex. Users often have trouble following printed instructions describing how to perform these procedures, and these instructions...
Tessa A. Lau, Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Castel...
— Traditional SLAs, defined by average delay or packet loss, often camouflage the instantaneous performance perceived by end-users. We define a set of metrics for service avai...