A new modeling framework is introduced for the analytical study of medium access control (MAC) protocols operating in multihop ad hoc networks. The model takes into account the e...
Marcelo M. Carvalho, Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna-Acev...
Consider the classical online scheduling problem where jobs that arrive one by one are assigned to identical parallel machines with the objective of minimizing the makespan. We gen...
Distributed hash tables are increasingly being proposed as the core substrate for content delivery applications in the Internet, such as cooperative Web caches, Web index and sear...
The study of 2D shapes is a central problem in the field of computer vision. In 2D shape analysis, classification and recognition of objects from their observed silhouette are e...
This paper is focused on the coordination of order and production policy between buyers and suppliers in supply chains. When a buyer and a supplier of an item work independently, ...