International crime and terrorism have drawn increasing attention in recent years. Retrieving relevant information from criminal records and suspect communications is important in...
The line-of-sight networks is a network model introduced recently by Frieze et al. (SODA’07). It considers scenarios of wireless networks in which the underlying environment has...
: This paper addresses the problem of maximizing the service lifetime of a distributed battery-powered sensor network in the context of the network interdiction problem under user-...
Abstract. A team of mobile sensors can be used for coverage of targets in different environments. The dynamic nature of such an application requires the team of agents to adjust th...
Replicating data objects onto servers across a system can alleviate access delays. The selection of data objects and servers requires solving a constraint optimization problem, wh...