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PE
2011
Springer
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Optimal resource allocation for time-reservation systems
This paper studies the optimal resource allocation in time-reservation systems. Customers arrive at a service facility and receive service in two steps; in the first step informa...
Ran Yang, Sandjai Bhulai, Rob van der Mei, Frank J...
PE
2011
Springer
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Energy-aware routing in the Cognitive Packet Network
An energy aware routing protocol (EARP) is proposed to minimise a performance metric that combines the total consumed power in the network and the QoS that is specified for the ...
Toktam Mahmoodi
PE
2011
Springer
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Quasi-birth-and-death processes with restricted transitions and its applications
In this paper we identify a class of Quasi-Birth-and-Death (QBD) processes where the transitions to higher (resp. lower) levels are restricted to occur only from (resp. to) a subs...
Juan F. Pérez, Benny Van Houdt
PE
2011
Springer
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Passage-time computation and aggregation strategies for large semi-Markov processes
High-level semi-Markov modelling paradigms such as semi-Markov stochastic Petri nets and process algebras are used to capture realistic performance models of computer and communic...
Marcel C. Guenther, Nicholas J. Dingle, Jeremy T. ...
PE
2011
Springer
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Closed-form waiting time approximations for polling systems
A typical polling system consists of a number of queues, attended by a single server in a fixed order. The present study derives closed-form approximations for the mean waiting t...
Marko A. A. Boon, Erik M. M. Winands, Ivo J. B. F....
PE
2011
Springer
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Time-bounded reachability in tree-structured QBDs by abstraction
Structured QBDs by Abstraction Daniel Klink, Anne Remke, Boudewijn R. Haverkort, Fellow, IEEE, and Joost-Pieter Katoen, Member, IEEE Computer Society —This paper studies quantita...
Daniel Klink, Anne Remke, Boudewijn R. Haverkort, ...
PE
2011
Springer
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Lumping partially symmetrical stochastic models
Performance and dependability evaluation of complex systems by means of dynamic stochastic models (e.g. Markov chains) may be impaired by the combinatorial explosion of their stat...
Souheib Baarir, Marco Beccuti, Claude Dutheillet, ...
COLOGNETWENTE
2010
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A Branch-and-price Approach to the k-Clustering Minimum Biclique Completion Problem
Given a bipartite graph G = (S, T, E), we consider the problem of finding k bipartite subgraphs, called "clusters", such that each vertex i of S appears in exactly one o...
Stefano Gualandi, Francesco Maffioli, Claudio Magn...
ICGA
2010
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A Shogi Program Based on Monte-Carlo Tree Search
Y. Sato, D. Takahashi, Reijer Grimbergen
GECCO
2010
Springer
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Multiobjective evolutionary algorithm for software project portfolio optimization
Large software companies have to plan their project portfolio to maximize potential portfolio return and strategic alignment, while balancing various preferences, and considering ...
Thomas Kremmel, Jirí Kubalík, Stefan...