Abstract We study how the average performance of a system degrades as the load nears its peak capacity. We restrict our attention to the performance measures of average sojourn tim...
Heavy industry maintenance facilities at aircraft service centers or railroad yards must contend with scheduling preventive maintenance tasks to ensure critical equipment remains ...
Gang Quan, Garrison W. Greenwood, Donglin Liu, Xia...
We define the class of SMART scheduling policies. These are policies that bias towards jobs with small remaining service times, jobs with small original sizes, or both, with the ...
Adam Wierman, Mor Harchol-Balter, Takayuki Osogami
Current multimedia applications are characterized by highly dynamic and non-deterministic behavior as well as high-performance requirements. In addition, portable devices demand a...
Javier Resano, Diederik Verkest, Daniel Mozos, Ser...