We study a sequential variance reduction technique for Monte Carlo estimation of functionals in Markov Chains. The method is based on designing sequential control variates using s...
— The performance and efficiency of Web Services can be greatly increased in conversational and streaming message exchanges by streaming the message exchange paradigm. In this pa...
Mobility modeling is a critical step in the design of mobile self-organizing networks. With the emergence of small-scale and short-range wireless communication devices, the commun...
Franck Legendre, Vincent Borrel, Marcelo Dias de A...
Digital interactive information displays are becoming more common in public spaces such as museums, galleries, and libraries. However, the public nature of these locations requires...
Uta Hinrichs, Holly Schmidt, M. Sheelagh T. Carpen...
: Recently, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm has exhibited good performance across a wide range of application problems. A quick review of the literature reveals that re...