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In this report, we study the problem of optimizing the throughput of applications for heterogeneous platforms subject to failures. The considered applications are composed of a sequence of consecutive tasks linked as a linear graph (pipeline), with a type associated to each task. [...]

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Predicting popular videos in online social networks (OSNs) is important for network traffic engineering and video recommendation. In order to avoid the difficulty of acquiring all OSN users’ activities, recent studies try to predict popular media contents in OSNs only based on a [...]

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Part 6: New Testing Methods; International audience; In this paper, we focus on Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) with non-uniform node density distribution such as Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) and Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), and propose a technique for protocol testing and [...]

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This chapter presents an analysis of transport services in the context of regional transport planning. It proposes to use specially designed accessibility indicators, which allow to really apprehend the quality of the services supplied to different segments of the population and help [...]

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This report is the third in a series of reports evaluating the risk of transporting plutonium by various modes. For comparative purposes, all shipping evaluations use the same bases. The characteristics of the nuclear economy used in this analysis are: a total of 18 metric tons of [...]