For a discrete-time finite-state Markov chain, we develop an adaptive importance sampling scheme to estimate the expected total cost before hitting a set of terminal states. This s...
Exception handling is one of the popular means used for improving dependability and supporting recovery in the ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA). This practical experience paper ...
Anatoliy Gorbenko, Alexander Romanovsky, Vyachesla...
An important stage of wide-area systems and networking research is to prototype a system to understand its performance when deployed in the real Internet. A key requirement of pro...
Himabindu Pucha, Y. Charlie Hu, Zhuoqing Morley Ma...
Although information retrieval research has always been concerned with improving the effectiveness of search, in some applications, such as information analysis, a more specific ...
To enhance web browsing experiences, content distribution networks (CDNs) move web content “closer” to clients by caching copies of web objects on thousands of servers worldwi...
Ao-Jan Su, David R. Choffnes, Aleksandar Kuzmanovi...