Motivated by applications in batch scheduling of jobs in manufacturing systems and distributed computing, we study two related problems. Given is a set of jobs {J1, . . . , Jn}, w...
The fair exchange problem is key to trading electronic items in systems of mutually untrusted parties. In modern variants of such systems, each party is equipped with a security mo...
A system for the tracking and classification of livestock movements is presented. The combined `tracker-classifier' scheme is based on a variant of Isard and Blakes `Condensa...
This paper proposes an abstract and generic topological model that captures the essence of P2P architecture. Such model should in return facilitate the exploitation of the new desi...
A popular solution to internet performance problems is the widespread caching of data. Many caching algorithms have been proposed in the literature, most attempting to optimize fo...
Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed Amer, Panos K. Chry...