A workflow is a computerized specification of a business process. A workflow describes how tasks are executed and ordered following business policies. E-commerce systems implement...
Temporal dependence within the workload of any computing or networking system has been widely recognized as a significant factor affecting performance. More specifically, burstin...
Evgenia Smirni, Qi Zhang, Ningfang Mi, Alma Riska,...
We have proposed a three-parameter renewal approximation to analyze splitting and superposition of autocorrelated processes. We define the index of dispersion for counts of an ord...
Size-based policies have been shown in the literature to effectively balance load and improve performance in cluster environments. Size-based policies assign jobs to servers based...