: The huge growth of e-commerce has had a profound impact on users who can now choose from an ever increasing number of options online. Inevitably, as the number of choices has inc...
We consider efficient real-time communication mechanisms for applications in unreliable and partitionable networks, where network partitions can occur unpredictably and nodes can ...
: We analyze D/G/1 and M/G/1 queues where the service time for an arrival depends on the amount of work in the system upon arrival. The models are motivated by the bit dropping met...
Many tasks require users to extract information from diverse sources, to edit or process this information locally, and to explore how the end results are affected by changes in th...
We analyze a general market for an industry of competing service facilities. Firms differentiate themselves by their price levels and the waiting time their customers experience,...