Abstract. Our work focuses on distributed software services and their requirements in terms of system performance and dependability. We target the problem of finding optimal deploy...
—Characterizing the performance of ad hoc networks is one of the most intricate open challenges; conventional ideas based on information-theoretic techniques and inequalities hav...
Group technology (GT) is a useful way to increase productivity with high quality in cellular manufacturing systems (CMSs), in which cell formation (CF) is a key step in the GT phil...
In this paper, we report the design, implementation and experimental results of Machine Bank, a system engineered towards the popular shared-lab scenario, where users outnumber av...
We have architected and evaluated a new kind of data resource, one that is composed of a logical collection of ephemeral data streams that could be viewed as a collection of publi...