In this paper we consider a multi-server queue with a near general arrival process (represented as an arbitrary state-dependent Coxian distribution), a near general state-dependent...
Coalition formation is a key topic in multi–agent systems (mas). Coalitions enable agents to achieve goals that they may not have been able to achieve independently, and encoura...
It is common that Internet service hosting centres use several logical pools to assign server resources to different applications, and that they try to achieve the highest total r...
James Wen Jun Xue, Adam P. Chester, Ligang He, Ste...
The following source coding problem was introduced by Birk and Kol: a sender holds a word x ∈ {0, 1}n , and wishes to broadcast a codeword to n receivers, R1, . . . , Rn. The re...
We explore the emerging application area of physics-based simulation for computer animation and visual special effects. In particular, we examine its parallelization potential and...
Christopher J. Hughes, Radek Grzeszczuk, Eftychios...