Financial efficiency is the premier performance measure for most systems. Existing economic ecosystems for distribution of multimedia leave a lot to be desired: client-server plat...
As cluster computers are used for a wider range of applications, we encounter the need to deliver resources at particular times, to meet particular deadlines, and/or at the same t...
The Common Reference String (CRS) model equips all protocol participants with a common string that is sampled from a pre-specified distribution, say the uniform distribution. Thi...
The characteristics of ad hoc networks naturally encourage the deployment of distributed services. Although current networks implement group communication methods, they do not sup...
In this paper, we develop an acyclic network of queues for the design of a dynamic flow shop, where each service station represents a machine. The orders arrive at the input stati...
Amir Azaron, Hideki Katagiri, Kosuke Kato, Masatos...