Fork/join (F/J) requests arise in contexts such as parallel computing, query processing in
parallel databases, and parallel disk access in RAID. F/J requests spawn K tasks that are …

We report that human walk patterns contain statistically similar features observed in Levy
walks. These features include heavy-tail flight and pause-time distributions and the super …

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This is a graduate level textbook that covers the fundamental topics in queuing theory. The
book has a broad coverage of methods to calculate important probabilities, and gives …

The estimation of quality for real-time services over telecommunication networks requires
realistic models for impairments and failures during transmission. We focus on the classical …

Statistical performance evaluation has assumed an increasing amount of importance as we
seek to design more and more sophisticated communication and information processing …

Manufacturing exists to create value. However, historically, discussion of economic issues in
manufacturing primarily emphasizes cost. It is becoming more difficult to understand and …

Although existing fMRI-to-image reconstruction methods could predict high-quality images,
they do not explicitly consider the semantic gap between training and testing data, resulting …

Understanding the nature of the workloads and system demands created by users of the
World Wide Web is crucial to properly designing and provisioning Web services. Previous …

We present a simple Markovian framework for modeling packet traffic with variability over
several time scales. We present a fitting procedure for matching second-order properties of …