We examine the problem of determining a user's value for his/her private information. Web businesses often offer rewards, such as discounts, free downloads and website persona...
Scott Buffett, Nathan Scott, Bruce Spencer, Michae...
—In this report, the problem of broadcast scheduling in Push broadcast systems is studied. We introduce an optimization approach that leads to well justified policies for Push b...
Internet advertising is a sophisticated game in which the many advertisers "play" to optimize their return on investment. There are many "targets" for the adve...
Monitoring global states of an application deployed over distributed nodes becomes prevalent in today's datacenters. State monitoring requires not only correct monitoring resu...
This paper studies the optimal resource allocation in time-reservation systems. Customers arrive at a service facility and receive service in two steps; in the first step informa...
Ran Yang, Sandjai Bhulai, Rob van der Mei, Frank J...