We describe a new class of utility-maximization scheduling problem with precedence constraints, the disconnected staged scheduling problem (DSSP). DSSP is a nonpreemptive multipro...
Eric Anderson, Dirk Beyer 0002, Kamalika Chaudhuri...
Existing reputation systems used by online auction houses do not address the concern of a buyer shopping for commodities—finding a good bargain. These systems do not provide in...
Shai Rubin, Mihai Christodorescu, Vinod Ganapathy,...
Peer-to-peer (p2p) systems offer an efficient means of data sharing among a dynamically changing set of a large number of autonomous nodes. Each node in a p2p system is connected...
Nowadays the success of many e-commerce applications, such as on-line banking, depends on their reliability, robustness and security. Designing a web server architecture that keep...
In this paper we discuss a new type of query in Spatial Databases, called the Trip Planning Query (TPQ). Given a set of points of interest P in space, where each point belongs to ...