Knowledge workers often need to find, organize, and work with heterogeneous resources from diverse services, information stores, and repositories. This paper analyzes two problems ...
Michael J. Muller, Werner Geyer, Beth Brownholtz, ...
Abstract. The topology creation is one of the most important step for the design of an overlay network. Traffic characteristic and volume, and behavior of nodes which can be sel...
We consider a call center with two classes of impatient customers: premium and regular classes. Modeling our call center as a multiclass GI/GI/s + M queue, we focus on developing ...
Bridge bidding is considered to be one of the most difficult problems for game-playing programs. It involves four agents rather than two, including a cooperative agent. In additio...
The efficiency of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems is largely dependent on the overlay constructions. Due to the random selection of logical neighbors, there often exists serious topolog...