Compared with the video programs taken by professionals, home videos are always with low-quality content resulted from lack of professional capture skills. In this paper, we prese...
Bids submitted in auctions are usually treated as enforceable commitments in most bidding and auction theory literature. In reality bidders often withdraw winning bids before the ...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing systems are characterized by highly replicated content distributed among nodes with enormous aggregate resources for storage and communication. Th...
Dan Dumitriu, Edward W. Knightly, Aleksandar Kuzma...
We describe a new class of utility-maximization scheduling problem with precedence constraints, the disconnected staged scheduling problem (DSSP). DSSP is a nonpreemptive multipro...
Eric Anderson, Dirk Beyer 0002, Kamalika Chaudhuri...
The Progressive Deployment System (PDS) is a virtual execution environment and infrastructure designed specifically for deploying software, or “assets”, on demand while enabli...
Bowen Alpern, Joshua S. Auerbach, Vasanth Bala, Th...