In many cases keywords from a restricted set of possible keywords have to be assigned to texts. A common way to find the best keywords is to rank terms occurring in the text accord...
Abstract. Tournament scheduling, such as the social golfer problem, has attracted significant attention in recent years because of their highly symmetrical and combinatorial natur...
The expected number of transmissions is a very important parameter to evaluate the multicast performance. It is often used to estimate the bandwidth consumption of tree-based reli...
For over a decade, the Nash Bargaining Solution (NBS) concept from cooperative game theory has been used in networks to share resources fairly. Due to its many appealing propertie...
In this paper, we study the benefits of advertising wavelength availability in a distributed lightpath establishment environment by extensive simulations. Various cases with diffe...