This paper concerns the design of mechanisms for online scheduling in which agents bid for access to a re-usable resource such as processor time or wireless network access. Each a...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Mo...
The growing cost of tuning and managing computer systems is leading to out-sourcing of commercial services to hosting centers. These centers provision thousands of dense servers w...
Sensor nodes are very weak computers that get distributed at random on a surface. Once deployed, they must wake up and form a radio network. Sensor network bootstrapping research t...
Martin Farach-Colton, Rohan J. Fernandes, Miguel A...
abstract NP-hard optimization problem, in a general sense. From the observation that, intuitively, there are many connections among categorical concepts and structural complexity n...
Liara Aparecida dos Santos Leal, Dalcidio Moraes C...
Google’s project to digitize five of the world's greatest libraries will dramatically extend their search engine reach in the future. Current search-engine philosophy, which...