We address in this paper the problem of scheduling for multiprocessor real-time systems with hard and soft tasks. Utility functions are associated to soft tasks to capture their r...
The main functionality of the Domain Name System (DNS) is to translate symbolic names into IP addresses. Due to the criticality of DNS for the proper functioning of the Internet, ...
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
Rate measurements are required for many purposes, e.g. for system analysis and modelling or for live systems that react to measurements. For off-line measurement all data is avail...
Given a set of service requests, each char acterize d by a temporal interval and a category, an integer k, and an integer hc for each categoryc, the Server A llocation with Bounde...
Alan A. Bertossi, Maria Cristina Pinotti, Romeo Ri...