— Crossbars are main components of communication switches used to construct interconnection networks. Scheduling algorithm controls contention in switch architecture. Several sch...
Mihir V. Shah, Mehul C. Patel, Dinesh J. Sharma, A...
We consider a monopolist expert offering a service with a `credence' characteristic. A credence service is one where the customer cannot verify, even after a purchase, whethe...
Laurens G. Debo, L. Beril Toktay, Luk N. Van Wasse...
The paper presents, first, the Structural Blanks (SB) approach, then a method to compose loop programs. SB is an approach for expressing computations based on recurrence relations...
Efficient estimation of tail probabilities involving heavy tailed random variables is amongst the most challenging problems in Monte-Carlo simulation. In the last few years, appli...
— 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 ...