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CDC
2010
IEEE
147views Control Systems» more  CDC 2010»
13 years 23 days ago
Dispatch then stop: Optimal dissemination of security patches in mobile wireless networks
The security threat posed by malware in mobile wireless networks can be countered through immunization using security patches. The distribution of patches however consumes bandwidt...
M. H. R. Khouzani, Saswati Sarkar, Eitan Altman
ISR
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Product Development and Pricing Strategy for Information Goods Under Heterogeneous Outside Opportunities
This paper considers a two-stage development problem for information goods with costless quality degradation. In our model, a seller of information goods faces customers that are ...
Ying-Ju Chen, Sridhar Seshadri
CORR
2010
Springer
95views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Optimization and Convergence of Observation Channels in Stochastic Control
This paper studies the optimization of observation channels (stochastic kernels) in partially observed stochastic control problems. In particular, existence, continuity, and convex...
Serdar Yüksel, Tamás Linder
ICNP
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Priority Pricing in Utility Fair Networks
This paper deals with a new pricing approach in utility fair networks, where the user’s application is associated with a utility function. We allow users to have concave as well...
Tobias Harks, Tobias Poschwatta
ICRA
2010
IEEE
102views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 4 months ago
Immobilizing 2D serial chains in form closure grasps
: The immobilization of non-rigid objects is currently an active research area in robotics. This paper explores the problem by studying the immobilization of serial chains of rigid...
Elon Rimon, A. Frank van der Stappen