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MAGS
2008
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Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
ENGL
2007
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Movement Compatibility for Rotary Control and Digital Display
— Using real mechanical controls, this experiment studied strength and reversibility of direction-of-motion stereotypes and response times for different configurations of digital...
W. H. Chan, Alan H. S. Chan
PE
2008
Springer
173views Optimization» more  PE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Improving fairness in a WRED-based DiffServ network: A fluid-flow approach
The DiffServ architecture has been proposed as a scalable approach for upgrading the Internet, adding service differentiation functionalities. However, several aspects of this arc...
Mario Barbera, Alfio Lombardo, Giovanni Schembra, ...
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
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Traffic capacity of multi-cell WLANS
Performance of WLANs has been extensively studied during the past few years. While the focus has mostly been on isolated cells, the coverage of WLANs is in practice most often rea...
Thomas Bonald, Ali Ibrahim, James Roberts
SIGMETRICS
2008
ACM
106views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2008»
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Fully decentralized emulation of best-effort and processor sharing queues
Control of large distributed cloud-based services is a challenging problem. The Distributed Rate Limiting (DRL) paradigm was recently proposed as a mechanism for tackling this pro...
Rade Stanojevic, Robert Shorten