SOFIA (Safe Automatic Flight Back and Landing of Aircraft) project is a response to the challenge of developing concepts and techniques enabling the safe and automatic return to g...
In this paper, the impact of timing a setup operation on the work-in-process and cycle time is investigated. Using a small example of an reentrant production system, it is shown t...
Martin Romauch, Walter Laure, Georg Seidel, Christ...
Video on Demand (VoD) services are very appealing these days. In this work, we discuss four distinct alternatives for the architecture of a VoD server and compare their performanc...
Daniela Alvim Seabra dos Santos, Alex Borges Vieir...
Technology trends make it attractive to use workstations connected by a local area network as a multicomputing platform for parallel applications. Achieving acceptable application...
Daniel J. Scales, Michael Burrows, Chandramohan A....
There has been much discussion about the best way to combine the benefits of new optical circuit switching technology with the established packet switched Internet. In this paper,...