— The ubiquity of mobile devices has led to a rising demand for location-based services and applications. A major part of these services is based on the location-detection capabi...
With standard assumptions the routing and wavelength assignment problem (RWA) can be viewed as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). The problem, however, defies an exact solution bec...
Simulation is the primary method for evaluating computer systems during all phases of the design process. One significant problem with simulation is that it rarely models the syst...
Jeff Gibson, Robert Kunz, David Ofelt, Mark Heinri...
This paper studies auctions in a setting where the di erent bidders arrive at di erent times and the auction mechanism is required to make decisions about each bid as it is receiv...
Abstract--We consider the problem of coding images for transmission over error-prone channels. The impairments we target are transient channel shutdowns, as would occur in a packet...
Sergio D. Servetto, Kannan Ramchandran, Vinay A. V...