—Resource provisioning for N-tier web applications in Clouds is non-trivial due to at least two reasons. First, there is an inherent optimization conflict between cost of resour...
PengCheng Xiong, Zhikui Wang, Simon Malkowski, Qin...
This paper focuses on the computation time of evolutionary algorithms. First, some exact expressions of the mean first hitting times of general evolutionary algorithms in finite...
—Software instrumentation is a key technique in many stages of the development process. It is of particular importance for debugging embedded systems. Instrumented programs produ...
To achieve better throughput, many hard drive manufacturers use internal queues and scheduling to take advantage of vendor-specific characteristics and knowledge. While this tren...
Mark J. Stanovich, Theodore P. Baker, An-I Andy Wa...
We consider real-time games where the goal consists, for each player, in maximizing the average amount of reward he or she receives per time unit. We consider zero-sum rewards, so ...