The Travelling Telescope

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The Travelling Miser Problem

Various monitoring and performance evaluation tools generate considerable amount of low priority traffic. This information is not always needed in real time, and thus could often be delayed by the network without hurting functionality. This paper proposes a new framework to handle this low priority, but resource consuming traffic in such a way that it will incur a minimal interference with the ...

The Travelling Agent Problem

This paper considers a sequencing problem which arises naturally in the scheduling of software agents. We are given n sites at which a certain task might be successfully performed. The probability of success is pi at the ith site and these probabilities are independent. Visiting site i and trying the task there requires time (or some other cost metric) ti whether successful or not. Latencies be...

Travelling bioethics

When there are no strikes or natural disasters, travelling usually is a pleasure. Some of us have returned from the annual conference of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in San Diego, while others have good memories of the 10th World Congress of Bioethics in Singapore last summer. But not only bioethicists are travelling, bioethics itself is as well, following the globalization...

Peabody: The Time Travelling Disk

Disk drives are now available with capacities on the order of hundreds of gigabytes. What has not become available is an easy way to manage storage. With installed machines located across the enterprise, the backup, management of application installation, and maintenance of systems have become a nightmare. An increasing trend in the storage industry is to virtualize storage resources, maintaini...