Most earth observation satellites (EOSs) are equipped with optical sensors, which cannot see through the clouds. Hence, observations are significantly affected and blocked by clouds. In this work, with the inspiration of the notion of a forbidden sequence, we propose a novel assignment...

A main challenge faced by cloud providers is to ensure that they are ready to accommodate the growing demand for compute resources. Towards that goal, providers need to deploy cloud servers agilely for uncertain future demand under many practical business constraints while avoiding unnecessarily...