Data stream management systems need to control their resources adaptively since stream characteristics and query workload may vary over time. In this paper we investigate an approa...
Business Process Reengineering is a reverse design process that allows for radical improvement in quality, service, cycle times, productivity and cost for a specific market or cus...
Energy usage has been an important concern in recent research on online job scheduling, where processors are allowed to vary the speed dynamically so as to save energy whenever pos...
Tak Wah Lam, Lap-Kei Lee, Isaac Kar-Keung To, Prud...
In this paper, we discuss and compare several policies to place replicas in tree networks, subject to server capacity and Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. The client requests ...
Virtual circuits can reduce routing overheads with irregular topologies and provide support for a mix of quality of service (QOS) requirements. Information about network loads and...