—We present a 3-competitive online algorithm for determining when to restripe a file for the case when the optimum stripe depth can take one of two possible values, depending on ...
— This paper presents a new redundancy resolution approach based on the gradient projection method, which allows to avoid man-machine and machine-machine collisions as well as si...
Yuta Komoguchi, Ken'ichi Yano, Angelika Peer, Mart...
Electronic commerce is fast expanding all over the world. Currently most B2C (Business to Customer) electronic commerce focuses on retailing and other online services, such as onl...
We study the problem of sorting binary sequences and permutations by length-weighted reversals. We consider a wide class of cost functions, namely f( ) = for all 0, where is the...
Michael A. Bender, Dongdong Ge, Simai He, Haodong ...
The Markov chain approximation method is a widely used, relatively easy to use, and efficient family of methods for the bulk of stochastic control problems in continuous time, for...