In this paper we consider server farms with a setup cost. This model is common in manufacturing systems and data centers, where there is a cost to turn servers on. Setup costs alw...
Network information distribution is a fundamental service for any anonymization network. Even though anonymization and information distribution about the network are two orthogona...
Decision-support requires the gathering and presentation of information, but is subject to many kinds of resource restrictions (e.g. cost, length, time). Individual users differ n...
—This paper presents a spectrum sharing approach which exploits the clustered distribution of users as would be expected in a typical home with several communicating devices (als...
Heterogeneous distributed computing systems often must operate in an environment where system parameters are subject to uncertainty. Robustness can be defined as the degree to wh...
Jay Smith, Luis Diego Briceno, Anthony A. Maciejew...