Abstract: Job-dependent tool switching is necessary in many batch processing systems (BPSs). Heterogeneous tool demand and extra time consumption for tool switches bring great challenges for ...

A financial “security” is nothing more than a claim on some stream of cash flows that investors expect to be delivered into their hands in the future. From our simple example, it’s already clear that ...

Abstract: The rapid growth of "big data" has made it more challenging to quickly manage and analyze enormous datasets in environments with distributed computing. To address this problem, the article ...