—We consider connection-level models of resource allocation in the Internet, where files arrive into the network according to a Poisson process and the size of each file is exp...
The world’s demand for sugar and particularly for renewable fuels such as ethanol requires an increase in production in sugar mills. The use of artificial neural networks (ANN) ...
In this paper we present techniques by which each mix in a mix network can be paid for its services by message senders, in a way that ensures fairness and without sacrificing anon...
Non-repudiation turns out to be an increasingly important security service with the fast growth of electronic commerce on the Internet. Non-repudiation services protect the transac...
In this paper we consider the problem of designing load balancing protocols in distributed systems where the participants (e.g. computers, users) are capable of manipulating the l...