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IM
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Business-Driven Optimization of Policy-Based Management solutions
— 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 ...
Issam Aib, Raouf Boutaba
WSC
1998
13 years 9 months ago
Experience Using the IBM Supply Chain Simulator
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...
SASO
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Distributed W-Learning: Multi-Policy Optimization in Self-Organizing Systems
—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...
Ivana Dusparic, Vinny Cahill
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Near-Optimal Data Dissemination Policies for Multi-Channel, Single Radio Wireless Sensor Networks
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...
WCE
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Simulating the Latent Effect of Attrition on Project Management
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...
P. K. Suri, Rachna Soni