2 papers
cs.DC2016
Transient Provisioning and Performance Evaluation for Cloud Computing Platforms: A Capacity Value Approach
Brendan Patch, Thomas Taimre
User demand on the computational resources of cloud computing platforms varies over time. These variations in demand can be predictable or unpredictable, resulting in `bursty' fluc…
math.PR2014
A Correction Term for the Covariance of Renewal-Reward Processes with Multivariate Rewards
Brendan Patch, Yoni Nazarathy, Thomas Taimre
We consider a renewal-reward process with multivariate rewards. Such a process is constructed from an i.i.d.\ sequence of time periods, to each of which there is associated a multi…