Is it possible for two intelligent beings to communicate meaningfully, without any common language or background? This question has interest on its own, but is especially relevant...
We study large-scale service systems with multiple customer classes and many statistically identical servers. The following question is addressed: How many servers are required (s...
Abstract--We consider using traceroute-like end-to-end measurement to infer the underlay topology for a group of hosts. One major issue is the measurement cost. Given hosts in an a...
Xing Jin, Wai-Pun Ken Yiu, S.-H. Gary Chan, Yajun ...
In the light of the existing literature on the issue of cross-cultural interface design, we carried out a smallscale study in order to check whether we could find cultural differe...
Olga De Troyer, Abdalghani Mushtaha, H. Stengers, ...
Since processor performance scalability will now mostly be achieved through thread-level parallelism, there is a strong incentive to parallelize a broad range of applications, inc...