Ranking is necessary for multiplayer online games to provide players with self-complacence and reference for choosing game counterparts. Most existing ranking solutions are tightl...
Li Tang, Jun Li, Jin Zhou, Zhizhi Zhou, Hao Wang, ...
The assessment of credibility and reputation of contractors in online auctions is the key issue in providing reliable environment for customer-to-customer e-commerce. Confident re...
The standard dynamic programming solution to finding k-medians on a line with n nodes requires O(kn2 ) time. Dynamic programming speedup techniques, e.g., use of the quadrangle i...
Understanding the performance of distributed systems requires correlation of thousands of interactions between numerous components — a task best left to a computer. Today’s sy...
Paul Barham, Rebecca Isaacs, Richard Mortier, Dush...
We provide a new simpler approach to the on-line load balancing problem in the case of restricted assignment of temporary weighted tasks. The approach is very general and allows to...
Pierluigi Crescenzi, Giorgio Gambosi, Gaia Nicosia...