In this paper, we consider the communications involved in the execution of a complex application, deployed on a heterogeneous platform. Such applications extensively use macro-com...
We consider packet networks and make use of the adversarial queuing theory" model 10 . We are interested in the question of guaranteeing that all packets are actually deliver...
This paper considers a two-stage development problem for information goods with costless quality degradation. In our model, a seller of information goods faces customers that are ...
Many combinatorial optimization problems such as the bin packing and multiple knapsack problems involve assigning a set of discrete objects to multiple containers. These problems ...
Abstract--As the Internet evolves into a ubiquitous communication infrastructure and supports increasingly important services, its dependability in the presence of various failures...