In a manufacturing system (MS), a wide range of human activities are applied in production processes. The human factor plays a core role and should be incorporated into the design...
One of the most challenging aspects of managing a very large data warehouse is identifying how queries will behave before they start executing. Yet knowing their performance charac...
Archana Ganapathi, Harumi A. Kuno, Umeshwar Dayal,...
Abstract. In this paper, a real-life routing and scheduling problem encountered is addressed. The problem, which consists in optimizing the delivery of fluids by tank trucks on a ...
—Highways are an essential component of our society because they are critical to quality of life and to local and national economies. Under good conditions, highways provide a sa...
Liviu Iftode, Stephen Smaldone, Mario Gerla, James...
Abstract— The scale, reliability, and cost requirements of enterprise data centers require automation of center management. Examples include provisioning, scheduling, capacity pl...
Sandip Agarwala, Yuan Chen, Dejan S. Milojicic, Ka...