The potential gain in speeding up the execution time of computationally intensive simulation in workstation clusters is tremendous. One of the challenges for exploring this gain is adaptation of the dynamic workload conditions and the heterogeneity of the workstation clusters. Static schemes of allocating simulation workload to distributed workstations are inadequate because the assigned worklo...

 In this paper we develop queuing model results for a single “automated” workstation that receives jobs from another automated workstation. An automated workstation is a server with deterministic processing times that experiences random operating times between failures, and then subsequent random repair times. We develop analytical expressions for the queue size distribution, the average numbe...

This document provides an overview of speech interface design principles as applied to the range of applications that have been developed at Carnegie Mellon. For the most part these are workstation-based applications based on spoken language understanding technology. Nevertheless the guidelines should be applicable to a wider range of applications. Speech interfaces have two properties not norm...