Shared Resources, Shared Records

Shared resources, shared costs—leveraging biocuration resources

The manual curation of the information in biomedical resources is an expensive task. This article argues the value of this approach in comparison with other apparently less costly options, such as automated annotation or text-mining, then discusses ways in which databases can make cost savings by sharing infrastructure and tool development. Sharing curation effort is a model already being adopt...

Multi-Component Efficiency with Shared Resources in Commercial Banks

Shared Communication Resources

We consider the problem of distributed packet selection and scheduling for multiple video streams sharing a communication channel. An optimization framework is proposed, which enables the multiple senders to coordinate their packet transmission schedules, such that the average quality over all video clients is maximized. The framework relies on rate-distortion information that is used to charac...

Synchronizing the Shared Resources

We define an operation over the sets of resources assigned to some concurrent processes, and express the synchronization feature of the resources by specific axioms. We define an algebra called “synchronizing resource algebra”, and present some of its properties. We define some supermetrics over this algebra. The relationship between supermetrics and additive functions is described, as well as ...

Queueing Networks with Shared Resources

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