The Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) is a shared resource in the hospital where patients recover from surgery. It is fed by a set of Operating Rooms (OR's) often spanning sev...
— Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) offer a powerful mathematical framework for making optimal action choices in noisy and/or uncertain environments, in par...
Email worms and the spam associated with them are one of the main operational security issues today because they waste time, money and resources. The high incidence of email worms...
- In this work, we study the problem of maximizing lightpath reliability in optical mesh networks against simultaneous failures of multiple fiber links without using protection sch...