— Cognitive radio has been recently proposed as a promising technology to improve the spectrum utilization efficiency by intelligently sensing and accessing some vacant bands of...
- Monitoring and controlling a large number of geographically distributed scientific instruments is a challenging task. Some operations on these instruments require real-time (or q...
Chenxi Huang, Peter R. Hobson, Gareth A. Taylor, P...
One of the most important policies adopted in inventory control is the (R,S) policy (also known as the “replenishment cycle” policy). Under the non-stationary demand assumption...
Web2.0 is a conceptual framework that aims at enhancing the World Wide Web with semantic and social functionnalities. For this framework to fully develop, there is a need for concr...
This paper considers the current efforts to describe the effect of Internet-based technology on interactivity between citizens and public organizations to be incomplete and poorly...