This a summary of the author's PhD thesis supervised by Leo Liberti, Philippe Baptiste and Daniel Krob and defended on 18 June 2009 at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. ...
Replication is a commonly proposed solution to problems of scale associated with distributed services. However, when a service is replicated, each client must be assigned a server...
In this paper, we develop an acyclic network of queues for the design of a dynamic flow shop, where each service station represents a machine. The orders arrive at the input stati...
Amir Azaron, Hideki Katagiri, Kosuke Kato, Masatos...
A very practical network problem for the effective deployment of a transatlantic computational GRID which is the current under-utilisation of the newly available fat long pipes dr...
Andrea di Donato, Peter Clarke, Frank Saka, Javier...
Abstract. We investigate the effect of linear independence in the strategies of congestion games on the convergence time of best improvement sequences and on the pure Price of Anar...