While hardware caches are generally effective at improving application performance, they greatly complicate performance prediction. Slight changes in memory layout or data access p...
Network firewalls remain the forefront defense for most computer systems. These critical devices filter traffic by comparing arriving packets to a list of rules, or security po...
An issue that is critical for the application of Markov decision processes MDPs to realistic problems is how the complexity of planning scales with the size of the MDP. In stochas...
Proponents of utility-based scheduling policies have shown the potential for a 100–1400% increase in value-delivered to users when used in lieu of traditional approaches such as...
Arguably, the main goal of Grid Computing is to facilitate the creation of Virtual Organizations (VOs); however, to date, not enough attention has been placed on the policies and ...