We describe and evaluate a strategy for declustering the parity encoding in a redundant disk array. This declustered parity organization balances cost against data reliability and...
We present a family of methods for speeding up distributed locks by exploiting the uneven distribution of both temporal and spatial locality of access behaviour of many applicatio...
Abstract. Mobile users are roaming in a zone of cells in a cellular network system. The probabilities of each user residing in each cell are known, and all probabilities are indepe...
Background: Prediction of protein solvent accessibility, also called accessible surface area (ASA) prediction, is an important step for tertiary structure prediction directly from...
In this paper, we study the procurement problem faced by a buyer who needs to purchase a variety of goods from suppliers applying a so-called total quantity discount policy. This ...
Dries R. Goossens, A. J. T. Maas, Frits C. R. Spie...