We consider a monopolist expert offering a service with a `credence' characteristic. A credence service is one where the customer cannot verify, even after a purchase, whethe...
Laurens G. Debo, L. Beril Toktay, Luk N. Van Wasse...
In a shared server infrastructure, a scheduler controls how quantities of resources are shared over time in a fair manner across multiple, competing consumers. It should support w...
We are interested in the connection-level stability of a network employing congestion control. In particular, we study how the stability region of the network (i.e., the set of off...
We describe a new, non-FCFS policy to schedule parallel jobs on systems that may be part of a computational grid. Our algorithm continuously monitors the system (i.e., the intensi...
Consider the problem of estimating the small probability that the maximum of a random walk exceeds a large threshold, when the process has a negative drift and the underlying rand...