Decision making in industry continues to become more complicated. Customers are more demanding, competition is more fierce, and costs for labor and raw materials continue to rise....
We consider a robust model proposed by Scarf, 1958, for stochastic optimization when only the marginal probabilities of (binary) random variables are given, and the correlation be...
— Extensive research has been performed to study selfish data caching in ad hoc networks using game-theoretic analysis. However, due to the caching problem’s theoretical root ...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have been recently proposed for providing search and information retrieval facilities over distributed data sources, including web data. Terms and their ...
Robert Neumayer, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&os...
Some of the currently best-known approximation algorithms for network design are based on random sampling. One of the key steps of such algorithms is connecting a set of source nod...