In this paper, we study a service procurement problem with uncertainty as to whether service providers are capable of completing a given task within a specified deadline. This typ...
Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Kate Larson, Alex...
Monitoring global states of an application deployed over distributed nodes becomes prevalent in today's datacenters. State monitoring requires not only correct monitoring resu...
Online Convex Programming (OCP) is a recently developed model of sequential decision-making in the presence of time-varying uncertainty. In this framework, a decisionmaker selects ...
Abstract: Recently, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has emerged as an alternative to Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software. Now, FOSS is perceived as a viable long-term sol...
Robert Charpentier, Mourad Debbabi, Dima Alhadidi,...
We study the retrieval task that ranks a set of objects for a given query in the pairwise preference learning framework. Recently researchers found out that raw features (e.g. word...
Xi Chen, Bing Bai, Yanjun Qi, Qihang Lin, Jaime G....