Several current support systems for travel and tourism are aimed at providing information in a personalized manner, taking users' interests and preferences into account. In t...
Expected slowdown has been proposed as a criterion to evaluate queue fairness. In this work we examine how the constant slowdown principle can be used as a basis for a queueing fa...
Abstract—We study a network model in which each network link is associated with a set of delays and costs. These costs are a function of the delays and reflect the prices paid i...
In this paper, we present methods for supporting autonomous updates in replicated databases. Autonomous updates are of particular importance to applications that cannot tolerate t...
Stefano Ceri, Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Arthur M. Kel...
In this paper we consider a multi-server queue with a near general arrival process (represented as an arbitrary state-dependent Coxian distribution), a near general state-dependent...