The element of luck permeates every aspect of the game of poker. Random stochastic outcomes introduce a large amount of noise that can make it very difficult to distinguish a good...
Abstract— The current best-effort Internet cannot readily provide the service guarantees that VoIP applications often require. Path switching can potentially address this problem...
Shu Tao, Kuai Xu, Antonio Estepa, Teng Fei, Lixin ...
In this paper, we study the contracting issues in an outsourcing supply chain consisting of a user company and a call center that does outsourcing work for the user company. We mo...
Dirty data is a serious problem for businesses leading to incorrect decision making, inefficient daily operations, and ultimately wasting both time and money. Dirty data often ari...
The Progressive Fine Granularity Scalable (PFGS) coding is a promising technique for streaming video applications. The macroblock-based PFGS coding proposes several INTER modes fo...