— We consider a network setting, where a single Service Provider (SP) provides wireless data services to a group of users in the downlink. The transmission model is similar to OF...
Due to inherent privacy concerns, online personalization services such as those offered through toolbars and desktop widgets are characterized by "no-free-disposal" (NFD...
We consider a model of daily newspapers’ competition to test the validity of the so called ”theory of the circulation spiral”. According to it, the interaction between the n...
The paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) has emerged as an architectural approach to flexibility and agility, not just in systems development but also in business process ...
One of the main reasons of the recent success of peer to peer (P2P) file sharing systems such as BitTorrent is its built-in tit-for-tat mechanism. In this paper, we model the band...