When harvesting collective intelligence, a user wishes to maximize the accuracy and value of the acquired information without spending too much time collecting it. We empirically ...
In many networks, vertices have hidden attributes that are correlated with the network's topology. For instance, in social networks, people are more likely to be friends if t...
Over the past few years, several local search algorithms have been proposed for various problems related to multicast routing in the off-line mode. We describe a population-based ...
Mohammed S. Zahrani, Martin J. Loomes, James A. Ma...
This paper analyzes opportunistic schemes for transmission scheduling from one of n homogeneous queues whose channel states fluctuate independently. Considered schemes consist of ...
We develop a two-stage model for versioning products with respect to both vertical and horizontal attributes. At first, a firm positions its top-quality "flagship" produ...