In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...
Bug reporting/fixing is an important social part of the software development process. The bug-fixing process inherently has strong inter-personal dynamics at play, especially in h...
Philip J. Guo, Thomas Zimmermann, Nachiappan Nagap...
Recent research literature on sensor network databases has focused on finding ways to perform in-network aggregation of sensor readings to reduce the message cost. However, with t...
The increasing availability of electronic communication data, such as that arising from e-mail exchange, presents social and information scientists with new possibilities for char...
R. Dean Malmgren, Jake M. Hofman, Luis A. N. Amara...
Despite flash memory’s promise, it suffers from many idiosyncrasies such as limited durability, data integrity problems, and asymmetry in operation granularity. As architects, ...
Laura M. Grupp, Adrian M. Caulfield, Joel Coburn, ...