The recent success of Internet-based computing projects, coupled with rapid developments in peer-to-peer systems, has stimulated interest in the notion of harvesting idle cycles u...
Recently, the low price and the small size of the mobile device makes a great success in personal mobile communication. A lot of people use a cell phone, PDA, and laptop computer ...
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...
It was shown recently [7?9], under quite general conditions, that retransmission-based protocols may result in power-law delays and possibly zero throughput even if the distributi...
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...