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TOIT
2010
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15 years 9 days ago
A market-based bandwidth charging framework
The increasing demand for high-bandwidth applications such as video-on-demand and grid computing is reviving interest in bandwidth reservation schemes. Earlier attempts did not ca...
David Michael Turner, Vassilis Prevelakis, Angelos...
ECWEB
2010
Springer
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14 years 12 months ago
Bilateral Negotiation in a Multi-agent Supply Chain System
A supply chain is a set of organizations directly linked by flows of services from suppliers to customers. Supply chain activities range from the ordering and receipt of raw materi...
Fernando Lopes, Helder Coelho
DSRT
2009
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
DCS: A Distributed Coordinate System for Network Positioning
Predicting latency between nodes on the internet can have a significant impact on the performance of many services that use latency distances among nodes as a decision making input...
Negar Hariri, Jafar Habibi, Shervin Shirmohammadi,...
COR
2011
14 years 9 months ago
An improved multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for the vehicle routing problem with time windows
The Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows is a complex combinatorial problem with many real-world applications in transportation and distribution logistics. Its main objective...
Abel Garcia-Najera, John A. Bullinaria
SIGACT
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
A survey of buffer management policies for packet switches
Over the past decade, there has been great interest in the study of buffer management policies in the context of packet transmission for network switches. In a typical model, a sw...
Michael H. Goldwasser