In this paper, the manufacturing blocking system (MBS) is studied from the Network Calculus (NetCal) perspective. By dominating an MBS by a window flow controller (WFC), we obtain...
—A material handling (MH) system of a general assembly line dispatching parts from inventory to working buffers could be complicated and costly to operate. Generally it is extrem...
Abstract. Products within a product family are composed of different component configurations where components have different variable features and a large amount of dependency re...
The growth of Internet commerce has stimulated the use of collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms as recommender systems. Such systems leverage knowledge about the known preferenc...
David M. Pennock, Eric Horvitz, Steve Lawrence, C....
Abstract--In this note, we consider the robust stability of sampleddata systems with respect to continuous-time delay. We argue that many results in the literature implicitly assum...