I develop a new mechanism for risk allocation and information speculation called a dynamic pari-mutuel market (DPM). A DPM acts as hybrid between a pari-mutuel market and a contin...
The Least Attained Service (LAS) scheduling policy, when used for scheduling packets over the bottleneck link of an Internet path, can greatly reduce the average flow time for sh...
Idris A. Rai, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, Mary K. Vern...
Suppose a number of hospitals in a geographic area want to learn how their own heart-surgery unit is doing compared with the others in terms of mortality rates, subsequent complic...
Mikhail J. Atallah, Marina Bykova, Jiangtao Li, Ke...
The number of location-aware mobile devices has been rising for several years. As this trend continues, these devices may be able to use their location information to provide inte...
Hierarchical peer to peer networks with multiple directory services are an important architecture for large-scale file sharing due to their effectiveness and efficiency. Recent ...