Message aggregation can be used to reduce the communication overhead in a network where many messages have the “same” content. However, it may make the network less secure bec...
This paper deals with the performance analysis of a system modeled by a queue. If we are interested in occupation problems and if we look at the transient phase, then it makes sen...
I show that the World Wide Web is a small world, in the sense that sites are highly clustered yet the path length between them is small. I also demonstrate the advantages of a sear...
Abstract. An algorithm for ranking spatial objects according to increasing distance from a query object is introduced and analyzed. The algorithm makes use of a hierarchical spatia...
Many different rules for decision making have been introduced in the literature. We show that a notion of generalized expected utility proposed in [Chu and Halpern 2003] is a uni...