— We consider whether the off-line compilation of a set of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) into low-level management policies can lead to the runtime maximization of the overall ...
The IBM Supply Chain Simulator (SCS) is a software tool that can help a company or a group of companies make strategic business decisions about the design and operation of its sup...
Sugato Bagchi, Stephen J. Buckley, Markus Ettl, Gr...
—Large-scale agent-based systems are required to self-optimize towards multiple, potentially conflicting, policies of varying spatial and temporal scope. As a result, not all ag...
Abstract—We analyze the performance limits of data dissemination with multi-channel, single radio sensors. We formulate the problem of minimizing the average delay of data dissem...
David Starobinski, Weiyao Xiao, Xiangping Qin, Ari...
Staff attrition is a problem often faced by software development organizations. We used process modeling and simulation to estimate the effect of different staffing policies on th...