Skewed distributions appear very often in practice. Unfortunately, the traditional Zipf distribution often fails to model them well. In this paper, we propose a new probability di...
In today's society, people have very little control over what kinds of personal data are collected and stored by various agencies in both the private and public sectors. We de...
Twitter, a popular microblogging service, has received much attention recently. An important characteristic of Twitter is its real-time nature. For example, when an earthquake occ...
in Progress – Extended Abstract Word count: 3124 Effectively managing IT service centers such as call centers, computerized diagnostic imaging facilities, data centers, e-commerc...
The capacity scaling property specifies the changes in network throughput when network size increases and serves as an essential performance evaluation metric for large-scale wir...