—This paper describes a novel compound Markov random field model capable of realistic modelling of multispectral bidirectional texture function, which is currently the most adva...
Content delivery is becoming increasingly popular on the Internet. There are many ways to match content to subscribers. In this paper, we focus on subsumption-based matching. We p...
Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...
In general, decision support is one of the main purposes of model-based analysis of systems. Response surface methodology (RSM) is an optimization technique that has been applied ...
—Despite extensive research focused on enabling QoS for grid users through economic and intelligent resource provisioning, no consensus has emerged on the most promising strategi...